Sherlock Holmes and the Murder of Logic: A Horror Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798333293718)

England, 1894: Sherlock Holmes is London's greatest detective, and his use of logic to solve seemingly impossible crimes is legendary. Yet what if logic itself is a mystery that even Holmes ultimately cannot solve?

When Holmes falls desperately ill from a terrible sickness, his friend Dr. Watson is fearful for Sherlock's life. Holmes appears to recover - but is he truly better? Strange events begin to unfold as the great detective's famous reasoning skills begin to go awry in bizarre and unexpected ways. As circumstances spiral out of control around the two investigators, a new, terrifying prospect looms: has Holmes actually reasoned his way into rejecting reason itself? Are the great detective's fears justified that he should perhaps abandon logic entirely, in favor of something rather darker?

Watson can ultimately do little to understand or to quell these extraordinary fears. And when the worst murders that the people of London have ever seen break out across that great City, Holmes must wade unprepared into battle, his reasoning in a shambles, against a shadowy foe that will not submit itself to any of his tortured thinking - and where Holmes risks losing both his identity and his sanity in a seemingly unwinnable battle, against the greatest enemy he has ever known: pure logic.

This is the London of Holmes and Watson transformed by the unthinkable reality of chaos - where an enigmatic, unseen beast stalks the shadowy West End; where the world behaves in lunatic ways that threaten to unhinge even the firmest of intellects - and where old friends are rendered helpless to aid the famous detective's shattered mind. Holmes without his logic is unthinkable, impossible - yet as Holmes himself has frequently said, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth."

Author's Note to the Reader: This is a Sherlock Holmes horror adventure, which explores what happens when the greatest logical thinker in popular culture has his celebrated reason ripped savagely away. It is a violent harrowing that cleaves Holmes to his absolute core - where the monsters that arise from the sleep of reason can be infinitely worse than death. This is Holmes deconstructed, torn to his very essence, where we see what the detective is truly made of. A deep horror experience.

Author: R. J. Denos
ISBN-13: 9798333293718
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2026
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d