The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

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Within hours the man in the flat cap has burgled the house and fled to a small hotel in Bermondsey, where Holmes’ Baker Street Irregulars track him down. As he approaches the end, you feel that the words he would most like to hear are, ‘The game’s afoot! Holmes did not drink the poisoned soup but ‘kept some back’ to prove to the doctor that the soup was poisoned. The more of it I read, the more I looked forward to basking in Holmes's deductive brilliance at the end: the solutions that are obvious once you know them but completely unguessable until you do. Therefore the servants must have continued to use the bath salts in the water but they were impervious to the poison that was affecting Miss Carstairs through contact with her skin and inhalation in vapour form during bathing.

It is good to have such a distinguished narrator as Derek Jacobi, a pleasure to hear and who even managed to make Holmes a fraction more likeable. THE HOUSE OF SILK bring Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print. As the pair delve deeper into the case, they stumble across a whispered phrase 'the House of Silk': a mysterious entity and foe more deadly than any Holmes has encountered, and a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society itself. Horowitz is obviously very passionate about the man, and it shows through in his work: probably one of the reasons why the Conan Doyle estate have approved this one out of all the Holmes novels and stories that have appeared over the course of the last hundred years or so.

He says that the story has not been told before because it is ‘too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print.

which actually comes from Shakespeare’s Henry V and just made me roll my eyes for its obviousness here. Holmes shows a touch of remorse at allowing the young lad to get involved, in fact he is so disturbed by this turn of events that he becomes even more determined to bring the killer to justice.It was a great story with enough twists and turns (as one would expect from Sherlock Holmens) to keep you listening. If you enjoy this sort of fiction, you likely have a favorite detective character; I’m a Hercule Poirot fan, and never enjoy the Miss Marple stories as much because she’s just not as interesting to me. When the boy’s badly-beaten body turns up days later, Holmes and Watson find that things have taken a much more sinister turn, and that the mysterious House of Silk lies behind everything.

E.,” the rest of the EP focuses squarely on her multifaceted production skills, lightfootedly gliding on “Marble Air,” nodding to ‘80s cinema on “Ecco Echo,” compelling idle feet to dance on “Fear of Silence” and slipping through the haze of half-sleep on “Underneath My Eyelids.

Man of mystery … Anthony Horowitz's The House of Silk is the first official follow-up to Conan Doyle's last Sherlock Holmes case. The house of silk” is very true to the original stories of Sherlock Holmes but makes the characters, especially Holmes, more human.