Sherlock Holmes and the Alice in Wonderland Murders

Scanned by ebookman. �OCR'd, converted, re-formatted, proofed and eBook creation by Jerry. Holmes and Watson encounter American newspaper magnate, John Moxton, whose yellow press Clarion is beginning to dominate and undermine Victorian England. Public figures are humiliated then murdered. Each incident has a parallel in Alice in Wonderland. And each time the Clarion is conveniently on hand. What is Moxton's master plan and can Homes and Waston unravel it in time? And what is the strange bond that links the detective to a man he has never met... or has he? More Tags : ebms, jerry Version : 4.9 London 1899 and a matter of grave national importance. American impresario, Florenz Adler, has rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe playhouse. The grand opening is totake place in the prsence of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Amidst the excitement, the actors receive sinister warnings in the form of cryptic quotations from Shakespeare's plays and a drawing of a rose. A hoax? A literary joke? But not for long - the joke turns sour as the murders begin, each an exact copy of a death in a Shakespeare play. Even the Queen receives a warning, and so Sherlock Holmes is called in to fathom out the plot - assisted, of course, by Dr. Watson. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE APOCALYPSE MURDERS...London 1895..and the past returns to haunt Sherlock Holmes. A murder with a distinctive signature suggests that Jack the Ripper may be back and no longer confining his attention to ladies of easy virtue. And is his return somehow connected to the charismatic Janus Cain and his Church of the New Apocalypse? Is there indeed, some master plan to bring an end to civilisation as Victorian society knows it? Holmes and Watson set out to find the answer with the unlikely help of Oscar Wilde. But will they be in time to avert the Four Horsemen...Pestilence, Famine, War and Death? 1898. Holmes and Watson encounter American newspaper magnate, John Moxton, whose yellow press Clarion is beginning to dominate and undermine Victorian England. Public figures are humiliated then murdered. Each incident has a parallel in Alice in Wonderland . And each time the Clarion is conveniently on hand. What is Moxton's master plan and can Homes and Waston unravel it in time? And what is the strange bond that links the detective to a man he has never met... or has he? At Oxford they jokingly called themselves THE SEVEN SINNERS. Now, thirty years later, they are being murdered - each in the manner of his particular 'sin'. Who is doing it and what is the connection with the twin serpents, the mysterious Emerald Lady and the holy Book of Kor? Holmes and Watson -with the aid of their new friend, Professor Challenger - must race against time and the killer...becore one of the victims becomes his brother, Mycroft. Holmes and Watson encounter American newspaper boss, John Moxton, whose yellow press, The Clarion, is beginning to threaten and undermine political stability in Victorian England. At the same time, public figures are humiliated and then murdered, each incident having a parallel in "Alice in Wonderland", and each time The Clarion is conveniently on hand. Holmes and Watson race against time to discover Moxton's master plan and thwart him. Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating a string of murders in London 1900 that have a common thread-- each recalls one of his earlier cases. I can't honestly say I've ever thought of myself as much of a fisherman. "Indeed you could, Watson - indeed you could."