- Private investigators, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction
A body is found crushed to death in the London snow. There are no footprints anywhere near it. It is almost as if the man was killed by the air itself. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves travelling to Scotland to meet with the one person they have been told can help: Aleister Crowley.
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Grave, classical in form, unpretentious and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Guy Adams
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- Titan Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780857682826
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Guy Adams collects careers like baseball cards. In his, surprisingly limited, time he has tried his hand at Museum Curator, Tour Guide, Historical Researcher, Newsagent… His main occupations, however, have always been acting and writing. In the former he has mugged people in Emmerdale, watched Rugby in Where The Heart Is, perved around in his y-fronts simulating sex with a woman dressed as a horse (Jean Genet’s The Balcony) and earned something of a reputation by impersonating real people (Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Hitler, to name but a few). He also toured as one half of the wittily titled “Adams & Jarrett” on the comedy circuit and is the youngest professional actor to portray Sir
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