The devil's blaze : Sherlock Holmes 1943

ISBN: 1639362487
ISBN: 9781639362486
Physical Description: 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Crime, 2022.

Harris, Robert J. 1955- (author.).

Summary: "London, 1943. Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace--Sherlock Holmes. The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Sherlock Holmes knows the truth that behind his fa©ʹade of respectability, Moriarty is the mastermind behind a vast criminal empire. As they together pursue the trail of incendiary murders, Holmes is quite sure that Moriarty is playing a double-game--and that there lies ahead a duel to the death from which they will not both survive"--