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The Moor

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In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband—and of a hound with a single glowing eye. Returning to the scene of one of his most celebrated cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles,Holmes and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than the moors themselves.

Genre
british mysterymysteryhistorical fictionvictorianhistorical mystery
Themes
feminismwomen
Setting
victorianengland
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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