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    The Devil’s Due
    The Devil’s Due
    The Devil’s Due
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Devil’s Due

    Written by Bonnie MacBird

    Narrated by Simon Darwen

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    After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird’s critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself.

    It’s 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date – a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London’s most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. But when his brother Mycroft disappears, apparently the victim of murder, even those loyal to Holmes begin to wonder how close to the flames he has travelled. Has Sherlock Holmes himself made a deal with the devil?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 10, 2019
    ISBN9780008348120
    Author

    Bonnie MacBird

    Bonnie MacBird is a produced screenwriter and playwright as well as an accomplished stage actor and writing teacher. She holds degrees from Stanford in music and film, and when she’s not writing Sherlock Holmes, moonlights as a theatre director and audiobook reader. She divides her time between Los Angeles and London. Visit her at www.macbird.com.

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    • 5/5
      Narrator was excellent. Characters were lots of fun. Story would have pleased Conan Doyle. I enjoyed it greatly despite some problems with gaps in the audio.
    • 4/5
      SPOILERS Her books are generally well written, and good enough stories, but this is the second one I've read in which the detective is grievously and sadistically injured, and in which a timely shot of cocaine saves the day.
    • 4/5
      1890. Sherlock Holmes becomes embroiled in the case of the French anarchists but then he is made aware of a series of murders which are then followed by family suicides. Mycroft wants him to concentrate on these killings. But he has his distractors in the persons of the new Chief Commissioner of Scotland Yard - Titus Billings - and Gabriel Zanders, a newsman.
      With the help of Dr Watson can Holmes determine the motive and the guilty person.
      Although the third in the series it is easily read as a standalone story, and I look forward to reading the first two.
      A very enjoyable, well-written, mystery, with its likeable characters, and thankfully great support from Watson.
      A NetGalley Book