“Lovegrove does an outstanding job of evoking Doyle’s style and mixing in healthy dollops of the macabre and fantastic that define the Cthulhu Mythos. Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave-or mad-enough to dare … Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. The first in a three-part series reimagining the classic canon of Holmes with a Lovecraftian edge, Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows rewrites the early days of Holmes and Watson, from their fateful meeting all the way to an early encounter with one of the Great Detective’s most diabolical foes. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan.
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