Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Like new. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The dust cover may show very slight wear on the very corner edges. This book had been well preserved and is in mint condition. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, by Anthony Horowitz ISBN: 9780316196994 Pages: 294 Published: 2011 For the first rime in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel. Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT... LONDON, 1890. 221B BAKER STREET. A fine arts dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap- a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days chat follow, his home is robbed and his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place. Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever decper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, che gaslit streets of London, opium dens, and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase "the House of Silk"-a mysterious entity that joins the highest levels of government with the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society. The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfix- ing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic,