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Death on a Pale Horse
- Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
In a momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas' latest Sherlock Holmes adventure pits the great detective and his faithful biographer, Dr. John Watson, against an international conspiracy led by a disgraced English officer.
Colonel Hunter Moran bears upon him the "Mark of the Beast"; his satanic ingenuity leaves a spectacular trail of devastation. It runs from the annihilation of a British armored column by Zulu tribesmen - armed only with shields and spears - to a life-and-death struggle on the sinking passenger steamer Comtesse de Flandre.
The heir to the French empire lies dead in the African dust. Europe is brought to the brink of war by forged dispatches, designed to enrich gun-runners and assassins. The gold fields and diamond mines of South Africa become the playground of organized crime. Only the detective genius of Holmes can prove a match for the unfolding criminality of Moran and his associates. With Watson and Mycroft at his side, Sherlock Holmes again demonstrates that although the powers of the state and the underworld may try to overpower him, they will never out-think his splendid analytical mind at the height of its powers.
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- Chris
- 05-08-24
excellent detail
Really enjoyed detail of writing and quality of narrator.Blended in to original Holmes literature effotlessly.
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- Tim Haughton
- 14-03-21
Too much filler
This is by far the weakest of the books. Unlike the others a single story, the general concept of which is good. However, there are somewhere in the order of two hours of unnecessary filler including lengthy references to the original genre, which I would expect most people will have enjoyed before looking further afield to alternate authors. A shame, it would have been better as a shorter but more punchy story.
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- Clare Skelton
- 21-11-14
Not convincing as a Sherlock Holmes
Would you try another book written by Donald Thomas or narrated by John Telfer?
yes
What was most disappointing about Donald Thomas’s story?
It was a dreary account of the horrors of of bygone wars and just went on and on about it, boring and unpleasant. I didn't read the book to read a war story.
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