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Learn moreSherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night.
1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he’s being threatened via the new art of the moving image …
Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of motion picture projection, believes his life is in danger. Twice he has been almost run down in the street by the same mysterious carriage, and moreover, disturbing alterations have been made to his lecture slides. These are closely guarded, yet just before each lecture an unknown hand has defaced images depicting Muybridge himself, which he has discovered, to his horror, only as he projects them to his audience. As Holmes and Watson investigate, a bewildering trail of clues only deepens the mystery, and meanwhile, newspaper speculation reaches fever pitch. The great detective’s reputation is on the line, and may be ruined for good unless he can pick apart a mystery centered on the capturing, for the first time, of figures in motion, and the wonders of the new cinematograph.
Tim Major is a writer and freelance editor from York, UK. His love of speculative fiction is the product of a childhood diet of classic Doctor Who episodes and an early encounter with Triffids. Tim’s short fiction has appeared in Interzone, Not One of Us, Shoreline of Infinity, and numerous anthologies, including Best of British Science Fiction, Best of British Fantasy, and The Best Horror of the Year. He tweets @onasteamer.
Tom Woosnam was born in England where he received his bachelor of science in physics from Imperial College, London. He has lived in the US since 1975 and taught high school physics and math before retiring with his wife, Julia, in Ashland, Oregon, in 2019. His avocation is acting. He has performed in over fifty amateur and professional productions, including eight Oxfordian plays.
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“Fans of traditional Holmes stories should welcome a sequel.”
“Major has a special skill of weaving his characters’ inner turmoil into the perils they face in the plot.”
“The only novel I have read that made my ears tingle.”
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