《The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch》是MysteriousPress.com/Open Road出版的圖書,作者是Edward D. Hoch
基本介紹
- 書名:The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch
- 作者:Edward D. Hoch
- 出版社:MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- 出版時間:2013年11月26日
- 頁數:172 頁
- 裝幀:平裝
- ISBN:9781480456501
內容簡介
In a heavily mortgaged country house, an heiress’s sinister guardian attempts to trap her in a bedroom with a rare Indian swamp adder—a murder averted only by the timely intervention of Sherlock Holmes. Five months after the events of The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Holmes and Watson are called back to Stoke Moran by a frightened gypsy who claims that the viper has gotten l...(展開全部) In a heavily mortgaged country house, an heiress’s sinister guardian attempts to trap her in a bedroom with a rare Indian swamp adder—a murder averted only by the timely intervention of Sherlock Holmes. Five months after the events of The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Holmes and Watson are called back to Stoke Moran by a frightened gypsy who claims that the viper has gotten loose again. Holmes is unsure which poses a greater danger: the rumored snake, or the possibility that the gypsy is telling lies. In these dozen tales, short story master Edward D. Hoch resurrects the most brilliant mind in the history of detective fiction. In the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes tangles with circus tigers, Druidic curses, and a pair of Christmas killings. Here is the finest detective of the Victorian age—recreated by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century.