- Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime
Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick Dr John Watson finds his suspicions raised. Soon more bodies appear, and Watson must discover who is the killer in the trenches.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Rob Ryan
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 489
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Charnwood
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781849839587
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