A Study in Murder

Name: A Study in Murder
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Ryan
ISBN: 9781471150937

Author: Robert Ryan

Narrator: Richard Burnip

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Published: 10/08/2015

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

A stunning Dr Watson thriller perfect for all fans of Sherlock.

The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is held in a notorious POW camp deep in enemy Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners.

With the Allied blockade, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel.

Watson, though, isn't so sure.

Something isn't quite what it seems and a creeping feeling of unease tells Watson there is more to this than meets the eye. And when an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut and he is sent to solitary confinement, he knows he has touched a nerve.

If Watson is to reveal the heinous crimes that have occurred at the camp, he must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from his old friend, Sherlock Holmes…

'Robert Ryan is the key heir apparent to Conan Doyle' Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

About Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan... I'm a man born in the wrong era. My heart yearns for faraway places and even further afield times. Sometimes I imagine myself in a Viking mead-hall. The long winter night presses in, but the shimmering embers of a log in the hearth hold back the cold. The chieftain calls for a story, and I take a sip from my drinking horn and stand up. . . Or maybe the desert stars shine bright and clear, obscured occasionally by wisps of smoke from burning camel dung. A dry gust of wind lifts sand grains into the air and blows them through our lonely campsite, and the wayfarers about me stir restlessly. I sip cool water and begin to speak. Samantha Krenneck... Really, Roberteo, is that the best you've got? Camel dung and mead? I'm going to ignore the camel dung (you could ease up a bit on the mead too) and open your stories to ... banter, romance and dragons. Especially dragons. You've invited me to co-author with you, so consider the kraken unleashed! No, wait. That's mixing my metaphors. Or monsters. Anyway, you get the point. Stay tuned everyone for the stories you've always loved from Robert, but now with a twist from me!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary-Ellen

Re-workings of the Holmes and Watson partnership have become a literary fashion. Robert Ryan’s latest work (the third in the series) offers a thrilling tale. It is set in 1917, during which time Watson is being held captive in a German POW camp. Following a suspicious death, the camp authorities cal......more

Goodreads review by Keith

Doctor Watson is a prisoner of war in 1916 Germany where he attempts to solve what may have been murder at a séance involving other prisoners. In the meantime, others, including Sherlock Holmes, attempt to have him freed. This is an exciting adventure story - implausible, but not risible - and a lot......more

Goodreads review by RoseB612

Třetí díl série a po slabším druhém dílu opět velmi dobrá knížka. Vrací se zde několik postav z prvního i druhého dílu, rozběhnuté děje do sebe začínají zapadat a také se poprvé (alespoň co jsem si vědoma) více pracuje s odkazy na původními Doylovy texty. Ostatně v originále se kniha jmenuje A Study......more

Goodreads review by Rob

I really wanted to like this book but I was ready to put it down each time I picked it up. It didn't help that this is the 3rd book in the series and that I didn't know that when I started reading it. It felt like a conclusion of a story that I was uneducated about and I felt like I should have been......more