Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? Audio Book

Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? Audio Book (2016) Paul Cornell narrated by Damian Lynch (Shadow Police)

‘Who are these people?’ said Costain. ‘What sort of gang includes old ladies, American mercenaries, prisoners called Dean Michael and South Sea islanders of limited stature?’

She had to exercise harder these days, she’d found, because her body was used to a certain amount of pleasurable satisfaction from food and kept urging her to find it now in quantity rather than quality.

There were also stalactites and stalagmites, but the colours, she saw as she washed the torch beam over them, weren’t the pale hues she associated with caving. Here were rust reds and bright yellows, and sick-looking greens. These, she realized, were stalactites of industry, chemicals from human work that had managed to seep deep underground.

This place had been where they’d once kept the national stock of the birch and the cat-o’-nine-tails, as though there might be a shortage.

Publisher: Audible Studios

Rating: 9/10

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