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The House Of Smoke
- Author
- Sam Christer
- Narrator
- David Thorpe
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 31 March 2016
- Run Time
- 12 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Cold-blooded killer Simeon Lynch has lived a brutal and glorious life in the employ of the House of Moriarty - the most feared criminal enterprise in the world. Now, as he faces the noose, Simeon learns dark truths about his master, about Sherlock Holmes and about his own past. Truths that make him determined to escape and kill again...
Follow Simeon's bloody footsteps through the capital's cobbled alleyways, wretched workhouses and flash taverns as he crosses swords with Sherlock Holmes and the villainous characters of Victorian London.
Critics Review
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Well plotted and mesmerising
Shots
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If you need your Sherlock fix now, try The House of Smoke
Radio Times
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An intelligent, exciting and seductive elaboration of both truth and fiction, a morality tale that tingles with all the tensions and menace of a fast-paced crime thriller
Lancashire Evening Post
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Details
- Author
- Sam Christer
- Narrator
- David Thorpe
- Duration
- 12 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 March 2016
- ISBN
- 9781405535816
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Synopsis
Big Ben chimes in the first seconds of the first day of 1900, the start of a fresh century. Inside London's oldest gaol, preparations are afoot to hang Victorian England's deadliest assassin, a man wanted for two decades' worth of murders. Cold-blooded killer Simeon Lynch has lived a brutal and glorious life in the employ of the House of Moriarty - the most feared criminal enterprise in the world. Now, as he faces the noose, Simeon learns dark truths about his master, about Sherlock Holmes and about his own past. Truths that make him determined to escape and kill again... Follow Simeon's bloody footsteps through the capital's cobbled alleyways, wretched workhouses and flash taverns as he crosses swords with Sherlock Holmes and the villainous characters of Victorian London.
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