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Detective Book Club: Deadly trap; Wait for what will come; The Last Sherlock Holmes story
Detective Book Club Deadly trap Wait for what will come The Last Sherlock Holmes story Author:Hugh Pentecost, Barbara Michaels, Michael Dibdin 1: Deadly trap by Hugh Pentecost (1978): Public relations expert Julian Quist, on vacation in the Berkshires, goes for a walk alone. When he doesn't return the state police can find no trace of him. He has walked into a hideout where professional terrorists are holding the daughter of an Arab oil tycoon hostage. An intensive search for them both... more » becomes a fight against extinction. Quist is inside a deadly trap trying to find a way our and Lieutenant Kreevich, his friend on the Manhattan Homicide Squad, is on the outside trying to locate the trap and find a way in; 2: Wait for what will come by Barbara Michaels (1978): When a young American girl, Carla, inherits an estate in England near Land's End, she goes to see what it consists of. In spite of her lawyer's warning, she is disappointed there is no money left to keep up the huge, rambling house on the water. Only the sale of antiques left in the attic have kept the place from beind closed. Suddenly Carla realizes she is not wanted by certain village people even as a temporary visitor in the house, and she decides there is a very big secret connected with the house itself which she doesn't understand; 3: The Last Sherlock Holmes story by Michael Dibdin (1978): Based on material only now released, this book opens in the autumn of 1888 when Jack the Ripper is terrorizing London. Scotland Yard, so far unable to catch the killer, approaches Holmes after receiving evidence from a letter sent by the Ripper. Holmes answered the Yard's appeal. Watson her posthumously tells the story of Holme's involvement in the Jack the Ripper case for Holme's fans.« less