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The Holmes Affair

byGraham Moore

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From the Academy Award winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game comes this thrilling Sherlockian adventure…

'The Holmes Affair is a brilliantly executed must-read for all admirers of historical fiction, Sherlock Holmes and intellectual mysteries. Engrossing, suspenseful and fast-paced, this debut novel manages to be both highly original as well as deeply reverential to its literary sources. It's difficult to find a new spin on Sherlock Holmes, but Graham Moore has pulled it off with flying colors' Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club

'A delight, and you don't need to be a Holmes buff to enjoy it' Daily Mail

'Clever and intriguing' Guardian

'A must for fans of the Baker Street sleuth' Yours

The Holmes Affair is a brilliantly executed must-read for all admirers of historical fiction, Sherlock Holmes and intellectual mysteries. Engrossing, suspenseful and fast-paced, this debut novel manages to be both highly original as well as deeply reverential to its literary sources. It's difficult to find a new spin on Sherlock Holmes, but Graham Moore has pulled it off with flying colors

Matthew Pearl

About Graham Moore

Graham Moore is a New York Times bestselling novelist and Academy Award
winning screenwriter. His screenplay for THE IMITATION GAME, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, won both an Oscar and a WGA Award in 2015, and was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. The film received 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

Graham's first novel, THE HOLMES AFFAIR(2010), was published in 16 countries and translated into 15 languages. It was called "sublime" and "clever" and "delightful" by the New York Times, "savvy" and "entertaining" by the Los Angeles Times, and lots of other
nice things as well.

His second novel, a legal thriller set in New York in 1888, will be published in the fall of 2016.
Details
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • ISBN: 9780099551546
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 256g
  • Price: £15.99