Selling two million copies in earlier editions, this is the second of the rediscovered Sherlock Holmes adventures.
His name is Jack..
Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose.
Some of the theater district\'s most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw
Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.
And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.
Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed.
Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized.
First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy.
A month of strange happenings in the West End.
London.
March 1895.
Don\'t miss it.--Cosmopolitan.
Acquired from a widow whose husband was descended from the distaff side of Holmes\'s family, this mystery finds Holmes solving a double murder in London\'s theater district.
Selling two million copies in earlier editions, this is the second of the rediscovered Sherlock Holmes adventures
