We get a visit to Whitby abbey in the dead of night alongside an Irish writer named Bram Stoker who gets the idea of his life on the trip, and we get a glimpse of what might have happened if Victorian ingenuity had taken a slightly different turn into Zombie armies and vast, impersonal factories.Īll that, and more literary references than you can shake a stick at, alongside pathos, friendship, betrayal and loss.įrost is a fine, intelligent writer, with a unique vision, and this is his best work. The sequel to The List of 7 Ten years have passed since Doyle first met the brilliant Jack Sparks and together they cracked the deadly case of the List of 7. We get a flight through the British Museum vaults, chased by the undead. This may sound like a Holmes pastiche, but Frost's imagination takes it way beyond that. Mark Frost Founder, Editor and Publisher, Glens Falls Chronicle U.S. That's before he gets involved with a secret service agent with amazing deductive skills, a penchant for morphine, and a twisted, brilliant older brother. The protagonist is Arthur Conan Doyle, still a doctor, and with no inkling of his creation of the worlds greatest detective. Mark Frost is best known as the writer on Twin Peaks, and he brings a similarly twisted vision to this wonderful novel set in a slightly skewed Victorian England.
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