Buy this book on-line WALSH,RAY**: : THE MYCROFT MEMORANDA.**LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1984. ISBN 0233975829.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Laminated,
colour, pictorial artwork, illustrated upper wrap by Meena Jamil with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present and no bumped corners.There are two laminate wrinkles/shrinkage to upper+lower bds, but no loss or breakage.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - but generally clean,contents bright,tight
and clean.Unblemished, plain, black paper- covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate,plain white eps with no hint of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps;though there is a Sellotape residue mark to feps and a black,crayon(?) D to verso of last page of 6pp blanks to rear of book.8vo,13-186pp includes half-title+
title pages,contents list,author foreword,
14 chapters and an 8pp appendix.
'The Mycroft Memoranda' sets out to solve
simultaneously two of the most perplexing
riddles of the late 19thC London.First, who was Jack the Ripper? Secondly,why was Sherlock Holmes,then at the height of his unique powers,never called upon to hunt down the killer? Drawing on the suppressed
diary of Dr Watson and on Sherlock Holmes own notebook,Mr Walsh reveals that Holmes did indeed take an active part in the search for the criminal.And as the book follows his investigation into the killings the reader is swept into an elaborate web of vice and intrigue in which the comforting presence of Dr Watson is shockingly (though temporarily) eclipsed by an ill-timed confrontation with the killer.This time he escapes,but not before Holmes has caught a glimpse of his face and realised,with horror,who he is. . .
How Holmes finally outwits the villain and why he cannot reveal his identity makes a splendid story that is much enhanced by the presence and activity of that bon viveur and genius,Mycroft Holmes,
Sherlock's legendary elder brother whose position as 'something in the Government' makes him, betimes,of critical importance.
'The Mycroft Memoranda',author's debut novel,is both a gripping tale and an accomplished and delightful pastiche which will give pleasure to all readers of detective fiction.
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