Publisher's Summary
'I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.'
England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
As their investigation leads them to the dark underside of Victorian London, Holmes and Watson soon realize that someone else is following the same trail. Someone who has the power to kill with a glance. And they sense a strange, inhuman shape observing them from the shadows. Then they meet the mysterious traveller known only as the Doctor -- the last person alive to read the stolen books.
While Bernice waits in nineteenth-century India, Ace is trapped on a bizarre alien world. And the Doctor finds himself unwillingly united with England’s greatest consulting detective.
Notes
- The First Doctor and Susan make a cameo at the beginning and end of the story.
- This is one of a number of stories (including White Darkness, Millennial Rites and The Taking of Planet Five) which equate various entities in the Doctor Who universe with the Great Old Ones and Elder Gods of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
References
Library of St John the Beheaded, Diogenes Club, rakshassi, Ry’leh, Plain of Leng, Great Old Ones, Yog-Sothoth, Lloigor, Vortis, Cthulhu, Haiti, Hastur, Fenric, Shlangii
Characters
Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Sherringford Holmes, Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle
External Links
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