Moriarty Audiobook (Free)
- Derek Jacobi, Julian Rhind-Tutt
- HarperAudio
- 2014-12-09
Summary:
The game is once more afoot with this thrilling mystery in the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned from the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom in the Reichenbach Falls.
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s nail-biting fresh novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty-dubbed the Napoleon of crime” simply by Holmes-in approximately Moriarty the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.
Days after the encounter in the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Run after arrives in European countries from New York. Moriarty’s death has left an instantaneous, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is absolutely no shortage of applicants to take his place-including one especially fiendish legal mastermind.
Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted pupil of Holmes’s ways of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, must forge a route through the darkest sides of England’s capital-from the elegant squares of Mayfair towards the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks-in pursuit of this sinister physique, a man much feared but seldom seen, who’s determined to stake his state as Moriarty’s successor.
A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from one of the only writers to earn the press from Conan Doyle’s property, Moriarty breathes lifestyle into Holmes’s dark and fascinating world.
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