The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes: A Mystery Featuring Shadwell Rafferty
New York: Viking Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 340 pp. Homes' American cohort the large-hearted and amply proportiond Irish New York saloonkeeper Shadwell Rafferty returns to assist the Great Detective and Dr. Watson with a case that echoes the original tale "The Dancing Men". It seems as though Abe Slaney, the vicious murderer Holmes once captured, has risen from the grave and kidnapped the beautiful widow Elsie Cubitt whose husband he shot dead years earlier. When it transpires that Slaney---or someone---is impersonating Holmes himself, the great detective begins to glimpse a darker buisness than he expected. Fine / fine. Item #E32818
ISBN: 0670031402
Price: $14.50