His investigation leads to other similar murders in London and in the catacombs of Paris. The strangeness of the claim and the ritualised component of the murder – the victim’s remains are little more than a jumble of bones on which sits a bizarre cube etched with runes – stimulate Holmes’ imagination, even if the supreme rationalist is dismissive of Jacobs’ opinion.Ī failed attempt to shut the machine down leads to further tragedy, but Holmes remains convinced that a rational, scientific explanation can be found. Now the father has died in mysterious circumstances, and Willie Jacobs is convinced the machine is the culprit. A bizarre machine powers the tram and father and son have been fuelling it with phosphorous. The dishevelled Jacobs and his father have been running an experimental tram line in London’s East End. The year is 1890 and Holmes and Watson are thrown into a bizarre case by the visit of Willie Jacobs. The author Lois H Gresh is a noted writer of weird Lovecraftian-inspired fiction, but this is her first time writing about the great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. The first, James Lovegrove’s Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. Written by Lois H Gresh - The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions is the second mash-up this year combining HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
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