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The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland, but brother Mycroft trumps all with an urgent assignment in the South of France. On the fabled Riviera, Holmes and Watson encounter...
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Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.
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2011.
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Eugene-François Vidocq was a notorious criminal and prison escapee by his early twenties. He then turned police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his associates. He invented innovative criminal indexes and experimented with fingerprinting, establishing forensic techniques that are still in practice today. This is a historical romp in the company of a man of many talents--jewel thief, swordsman, spy, policeman, and the world's first detective....
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