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The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel

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published on 2023-10-17T20:52:29Z DJ S - Live @ House of Silk - Summer Closing Party @ LDN East - Sat 30th September 2023

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However, the retired military doctor is coming to 221B, Baker Street, to stay with his close friend for a few days as his wife set out to visit her old employer in the country. That’s when it happens. Edmund Carstairs, an art gallery partner, visits them with a complaint that he is being followed. He believes it’s from an Irish gang, whom he had to fight indirectly with a year ago, related to the robbery of a few paintings in the US.

We can’t help but get astounded by the impressive observation and exhilarated deductive skills of the investigator. Not to mention, his talent in arriving at conclusions out of thin air proves the meticulous craft of the original creator. The House of Silk is another Holmes novel published in 2011, but not apparently written by Doyle, but by Anthony Horowitz instead. The House of Silk Review (Review) Emphatically, yes. The characters are, as Conan Doyle himself would have them, as close to cliché as good writing allows. Horowitz's Watson cleverly excuses himself right at the start from any complaints about style or content by reminding us of Holmes's oft-stated judgment of the stories: "He accused me more than once of vulgar romanticism, and thought me no better than any Grub Street scribbler." We must take them on their own terms, then: Mr Carstairs, the troubled dealer in fine art, who is being watched by a mysterious stranger in a flat cap with a "livid scar on his right cheek". Carstairs's wife, the mysterious foreign adventuress. Cornelius Stillman, the bumptious American millionaire. The dastardly Boston Irish gang, led by the ruthless O'Donaghue twins. The madwoman in the attic. The creepy reverend who runs a home for boys. The big set-pieces: the train robbery; the escape from prison; the freak show; the high-speed horse-drawn carriage chase. The Exchange of Silk, Cotton and Woollen Goods, and their Association with Different Modes of Living along the Silk Roads published on 2023-10-17T20:52:20Z Shenin Amara - Live @ House of Silk - Summer Closing Party @ LDN East - Sat 30th September 2023Holmes tells Carstairs that he will not be able to help him, but the next day, he receives word that Mr. Carstairs's house was robbed. Holmes reveals that he anticipated this, so he and Watson go to the house to investigate. There, they meet Catherine, Mr. Carstairs's wife. She has an American accent, and she explains that they are newly married, having met on a recent voyage from America to England. They also meet Eliza, Mr. Carstairs's sister; she warns them that Catherine is only after her brother's money. The party (Holmes, Watson, Lestrade) makes its way to the "House of Silk", a club operated by a pastor and his wife who also govern a boy's orphanage, and rent the boys to wealthy customers. The members are promptly rounded up by Scotland Yard. Despite their arrests, however, the case does not come to trial, due to a royal family member having been purportedly involved. It is eventually revealed that Mrs. Carstairs is the true person responsible for The Flat Cap case, being the second leader of the Irish gang. The cities trade activities were especially prosperous during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 CE), when Hangzhou became an important hub and port along the growing Silk Roads. Hangzhou became a distribution centre for many types of wares, with merchants from Fujian and Guangdong importing exotic goods to the city including spices from South East Asia. Foreign trade reached its peak during the Southern Song Dynasty, a time during which sericulture and silk production technology in Hangzhou made great progress with twill, brocade, satin, cut silk, yarn, and cotton products also manufactured in the city. published on 2023-10-17T20:52:31Z Crazy Cousinz - Live @ House of Silk - Summer Closing Party @ LDN East - Sat 30th September 2023 So, all of the elements are there: the data, the data, the data. Nothing of consequence overlooked. And yet can Horowitz, like Holmes, make from these drops of water the possibilities of an Atlantic or a Niagara? Can he astonish us? Can he thrill us? Are there "the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis" that we yearn for?

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