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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TELEGRAM FROM HELL

Nicholas Meyer

From the Memoirs of John H. Watson

With a mystery every bit as intelligent as Arthur Conan Doyle's own and a plot that bristles with historical detail, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TELEGRAM FROM HELL is a compelling new entry in Nicholas Meyer's continuations of the Holmesian sagas. It plunges Holmes into a world much like our own - where entangling alliances, secret plots, and human frailty threaten cataclysmic destruction.

June, 1916: With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, M.D. is operating on the wounded full-time when his labors are interrupted by a knock on his door, revealing. Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a cracked rib. The story he has to tell will set in motion a series of world-changing events in the most consequential case of the detective's career. Amid rebellion in Ireland and revolution in Russia, Germany has a secret plan to win the war, and Sir William Melville, the first "M" (chief of the British Secret Service Bureau) after Mycroft , of course -- dispatches the two aging friends to learn what the scheme is before it can be put into effect. In pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram sent from Berlin to an unknown recipient in Mexico, Holmes and Watson must cross the Atlantic, dodge German U-boats and assassination attempts, evading the intrigues of young J. Edgar Hoover, while enlisting the help of a beautiful, eccentric Washington socialite, as they seek to foil the schemes of Holmes's nemesis, the escaped German spymaster, Von Bork. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TELEGRAM FROM HELL may read like fiction but almost everything in it is true. John Hamish Watson was born in England in 1847. After obtaining his medical degree from the University of London in 1878, he enrolled in the course at Netley for army surgeons, which he was attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers and sent to India. He was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand during the Second Afghan War in 1880, after which he returned to England with nine months' veteran's pension. In January of the following year, he met Sherlock Holmes who was looking for someone to share his lodgings. Watson found his niche, chronicling the cases of his detective friend. He resumed his practice of medicine and seems to have married at least twice. Nicholas Meyer is the "editor" of five previous Watson manuscripts, including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which spent forty weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and went on to become a 1976 Oscar-nominated British-American mystery film with Meyer nominated for Best Screenplay. His other film credits include writing or directing "Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan," " Star Trek IV- the Voyage Home," and "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country." He wrote and directed "Time After Time, " co-created "Medici - Masters of Florence" an directed "The Day After," a TV about nuclear war that attracted the largest audience ever to that date for a television movie.

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Book Published 2024-08-01 by Penzler Publishers/MYSTERIOUS PRESS

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Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram From Hell is certainly fun to read . . . In such works of homage and affection, the great detective lives on.

Meyer weaves real people into this fabulous tale, including Alice Roosevelt Longworth and a very young J. Edgar Hoover, all while keeping the game very much afoot. Baker Street Irregulars everywhere will enjoy this.

A delightful, fast-paced, historically correct novel . . . that perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the period.

This is not only another great mystery to solve but a grand adventure.

For me, Nicholas Meyer has managed the impossible, which is to sound exactly like Arthur Conan Doyle, as he plunges Holmes and Watson into a time in our history when the survival of Britain and the British was under threat. The danger is real and so, by this stage, at any rate for most of us, are Holmes and Watson. The combination is irresistible. It will not surprise the reader that in Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell, the Great Detective surpasses himself.

Another tour-de-force from Nicholas Meyer, once more channelling Conan Doyle to tremendously entertaining effect, this time weaving in a Mexican-American connection which is, remarkably, both true to history and stranger than fiction.

The Sherlockian mystery is solid and delightful on its own, but Meyer's portrait of this moment in history adds a surprising and fascinating bonus... Ingenious international froth studded with historical tidbits.

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The combination of a terrific plot, surprising twists, and the poignant relationship between the elderly Holmes and Watson makes this a memorable read.

Nicholas Meyer, a master storyteller, brings Holmes and Watson triumphantly to life during the English, American and Mexican intrigues of the Great War. His witty and riveting mystery, based on a crucial historical event, has a brilliant climax.

A thrilling, fast-paced, and dangerous story . . . Of all the Holmes novelistsand there are a lot of themMeyer is one of the best, and it's wonderful to see these two characters back in action.

Nicholas Meyer's stirring tale of the turning point of the Great War reveals the pivotal roles of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. Solidly based on history, it's thrilling, full of surprises, yet touchingly poignant in its depiction of the aging partners. Please continue unearthing these lost accounts, Mr. Meyer!

For decades, Nicholas Meyer has held sway as the preeminent author of Sherlockian tales, and Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell demonstrates his strengths in profusion: crisp plotting, rich cultural-political background, many flashes of wit, and an abiding zest for the game.