Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is a mystery novel by James Lovegrove.
This book is well written.
But WEIRD for Sherlock Holmes fans.
Instead of typical Baker Street consulting detectivry, this is some kind of supernatural horror story.
This one begins in 1880. Watson has returned from Afghanistan an invalid, but the cause of his injury was not as previously stated a Jezail bullet during the Battle of Maiwand, but rather as a result of his first brush with the occult.
It is not to be his last.
He is dragged by accident into one of Holmes’ cases, and from there their friendship grows.
Holmes has been investigating a series of bizarre deaths in the East End district of Shadwell; poor, unfortunate men and women are dying at the height of the new moon, their bodies aged and shrunken in an improbable manner. …
It’s not for me. I won’t be continuing with the series.
Rick McCharles 