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Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas demon, James Lovegrove

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Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas demon, James Lovegrove

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Main title

Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas demon

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James Lovegrove

Summary

It is Christmas 1890, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - daughter of an eccentric Yorkshire dynasty - believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her mother had told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen him from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive parcels of birch twigs, Black Thurrick's calling card

Table Of Contents

Cover; Contents; Also Available from James Lovegrove and Titan Books; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Chapter One: A Felonious Father Christmas; Chapter Two: The Allerthorpes of Fellscar Keep; Chapter Three: The Black Thurrick; Chapter Four: An Archetypal Petrarchan Sonnet; Chapter Five: Fellscar Keep; Chapter Six: Dinnertime Purdah; Chapter Seven: A Marvellous Medium; Chapter Eight: The Monolith In the Glade; Chapter Nine: Shadrach Allerthorpe'S Brief But Most Curious Narrative; Chapter Ten: Ice And Soil; Chapter Eleven: An Additional Benefit of Domestic RetainersChapter Twelve: The Smell Of MelancholyChapter Thirteen: The Gathering of the Clan; Chapter Fourteen: My Long Night of Penance; Chapter Fifteen: Leaping to a Conclusion; Chapter Sixteen: No Accident; Chapter Seventeen: A Deadly Pas De Deux; Chapter Eighteen: Diamonds Before Swine; Chapter Nineteen: A Good Arm And A Good Eye; Chapter Twenty: Lord Of Misrule; Chapter Twenty-One: The Devil Worshipper and The Hell Stone; Chapter Twenty-Two: Mrs Trebend'S Terror; Chapter Twenty-Three: Departure For London; Chapter Twenty-Four: A Costly Comradeship; Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ideal Murder WeaponChapter Twenty-Six: A Frozen PurgatoryChapter Twenty-Seven: Fragile Ice; Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Lesser of two Evils; Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Greater of two Evils; Chapter Thirty: The Tragic History of the Trebends; Chapter Thirty-One: A Christmas Miracle; About the Author

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