Horowitz is a very good writer and this is a very good book.
A fictionalised (well obviously, the whole thing is fiction) reconstruction of events near the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, following the apparent death of both Holmes and Moriarty.
An English policeman Athelney Jones, with a manner and technique almost identical to Holmes, attends the post-mortem of Moriarty, accompanied by Frederick Chase, a Pinkerton operative from New York, sent to investigate infiltration into London of US criminals following Moriarty’s death.
For most of the book the two work hard, led mainly by Jones with his Holmesian skills, to pursue this gang and appear to be about to crack the whole case, but shockingly Chase is not what (or who) he seems. I won’t say more.
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