Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of
World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's
greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the
Ripper.
London, 1942.
A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime
streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous
Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from
the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original
Jack--or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings?
In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world's
greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from
legend to track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of
death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets
of London, death waits just around the corner.
Inspired by the classic film series from Universal Pictures starring
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which took Sherlock Holmes to the 1940s,
this is a brand-new adventure from a talented author who brilliantly
evokes one of mystery fiction's most popular characters.