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THE PANDORA PLAGUE - A POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR OF JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.

THE PANDORA PLAGUE - A POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR OF JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.
By Lee Matthias

GENRE: Historical, Thriller
LOGLINE:

In 1902 London, famed American Magician, Harry Houdini enlists Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. John H. Watson, in a case that rocks the British Empire to its core.

SYNOPSIS:

The theft of an unusual pocket watch brings famed magician, Harry Houdini, together with the world's foremost consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. When it leads to the appearance of a mysterious locked strong-box, it becomes a mystery that threatens the empire.

When the magician is blackmailed in order to best the box's lock, Holmes and his ally, Dr. John H. Watson, expose a plot against the Crown, itself. Only Holmes's immense intellect, combined with the "Official" resources of his equally brilliant brother, Mycroft Holmes, can penetrate the mystery in time.

A period feast, filled with luminaries of the era, bursting with the raucous energy of a time when the world was throwing off the romanticism of the Victorian Age for the power and dangerous potential of science, new philosophies, and the machine.

Sherlock Holmes is at his peak. The brash, young Houdini challenges all who stand in his way. And Watson, Holmes's chronicler and friend, returns us to a time when the gas was always lit, the Persian slipper always filled with shag, and the game was, once again, and at long last... afoot.

Note - This is a published novel (https://tinyurl.com/24f3zy3m) that must be adapted for film.

"...builds considerable suspense..."

"a...pastiche...fun for both non-Sherlockian specialists and Holmesian devotees."

"Matthias describes Houdini's feats of magic, both on and off stage, most skillfully."

---The Armchair Detective

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