The devil and Sherlock Holmes: [tales of murder, madness, and obsession]
Movie and television tie-ins, Law and crime, True crime
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world, and pivots around the gravitational pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world's foremost expert on… Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City's water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power--and often the willful perversity--of the human spirit. 2010.