The Devil’s Due (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, Book 3)

After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird’s critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself.

It’s 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date – a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London’s most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. But when his brother Mycroft disappears, apparently the victim of murder, even those loyal to Holmes begin to wonder how close to the flames he has travelled. Has Sherlock Holmes himself made a deal with the devil?

• Third in a trilogy of authentic Conan Doyle-style Sherlock Holmes novels, with Art in the Blood already a major success, selling in 19 languages

• There has been a resurgence of interest in Sherlock Holmes since the internationally popular BBC series and 2009/2011 feature films

• The author has worked in Hollywood for many years as a scriptwriter and editor, winning 3 Emmy Awards, and is a respected speaker at Sherlockian conventions