The Electric Man (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798187042982)

THE ELECTRIC MAN

A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

by Mark Collins

In the fog-choked wharves of Victorian London, a night-watchman is found dead at his post - throat and hands scorched black, his face frozen in a rictus of pure terror, though not a mark of any ordinary weapon can be found upon him. When a second victim is discovered days later, burned in the same impossible fashion, whispers begin to spread along the riverside: something enormous, something wreathed in blue and crackling light, is walking the Wapping fog by night.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to a case unlike any in their long career - one that will lead them from a disused tannery wired with galvanic apparatus, to the confession of a brilliant physician undone by grief, to the drawing rooms of a peer of the realm with ambitions darker than either detective could have imagined. At the heart of it all stands a towering, patchwork figure the newspapers have already condemned as a monster: the Electric Man. But as Holmes peels back layer after layer of scientific horror and human tragedy, he begins to suspect that the truest danger in this case may not be the creature the press has learned to fear - but the men who hope to profit from it.

Blending the atmosphere of classic Holmes deduction with the gothic dread of Frankenstein, The Electric Man is a tale of galvanic science run tragically amok - of a father's grief pushed past every boundary of conscience, and of a detective forced to ask whether justice and mercy can ever truly be reconciled. Fans of Victorian mystery, scientific horror, and the timeless partnership of Holmes and Watson will find, in these pages, a case as haunting as it is unforgettable.

A gripping Victorian mystery featuring:

• A classic Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigation, set amid the fog and gaslight of Victorian London

• A brilliant, tragic scientist whose galvanic experiments cross the line between medicine and horror

• A monstrous, sympathetic creature at the dark heart of the mystery

• A hidden conspiracy reaching into the highest circles of power

• Twenty-six chapters of atmospheric, richly detailed mystery and suspense

Perfect for readers who love Sherlock Holmes pastiches, Victorian gothic fiction, and mysteries that ask what happens when science reaches for the one thing it was never meant to touch.