The Red Ribbon, H.B. Lyle
The Red Ribbon, H.B. Lyle
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The Red Ribbon
The gripping spy series shortlisted for the SpyMasters Book Prize 2025

Author: H.B. Lyle

Series: Irregular

Narrator: Gareth Armstrong

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2018

Synopsis

SPY HUNTER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPYMASTERS BEST ESPIONAGE NOVEL OF 2025, ALONGSIDE THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW BY I.S. BERRY AND GABRIEL'S MOON BY WILLIAM BOYD

The thrilling follow up to The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy, featuring Wiggins - an ex-soldier who was trained as a child by Sherlock Holmes.

'H.B. Lyle has found the golden thread between Bond and Holmes' Giles Foden

'Impressive period detail and sharp dialogue' Daily Mail

'A thrilling story of espionage, murder and the creation of the Secret Service' Charles Cumming

Now an agent of the newly-formed Secret Service, Wiggins is still determined to track down Peter the Painter, the murderer of his friend Bill.

Meanwhile, Captain Kell is under pressure to identify who is leaking vital information from the government, and his wife Constance is getting dangerously close to the more militant faction of suffragettes.

When Wiggins traces one of the old Baker Street Irregulars gang to a mysterious club in Belgravia, the action follows thick and fast in another brilliantly compelling novel of betrayal and suspense.

About H.B. Lyle

H.B. Lyle lives in South London with his partner and their twin daughters. After a career infeature film development, he took an MA in creative writing, followed by a PhD, at the University ofEast Anglia, an experience which led to the creation of The Irregular. He also writes screenplaysand teaches undergraduates.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elaine

I would like to thank Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for an advance copy of The Red Ribbon, the second novel to feature ex Baker Street Irregular turned spy, Wiggins. It is 1910 and the recently created Secret Service is tasked with finding the mole who is leaking embarrassing secrets to the German......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

Captain Vernon Kell is still fighting to keep a secret intelligence service from being blended into the Special Branch of London’s police. Kell is assigned to find a mole that has been leaking secrets to Germany. But he is sent after those deemed enemies of the state, the lower classes and suffraget......more

Goodreads review by Jo

It's 1910, the King is dead, and Wiggins is hunting German spies for the government. He's also trying to trace a missing girl on behalf of the daughter of his friend and find the man who previously tried to kill him. These novels featuring one of Sherlock Holmes's Irregulars all grown up are great a......more

Quotes

Clever and witty. Readers will hope to see plenty more of Wiggins Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy -

A thrilling story of espionage, murder and the creation of the Secret Service

A flavoursome smorgasbord that features not only Holmes but also Winston Churchill, this is irresistible stuff

A fine first entry in what promises to be a great new series. Wiggins is a captivating hero, and Lyle draws his Edwardian backstreets in convincing colour. The game is most definitely afoot.

A good deal of excitement and some enjoyable riffing on both the history of espionage and the Conan Doyle canon, with cameos of everybody from Winston Churchill to Mr Holmes himself... the book is a treat Sunday Express

Impressive period detail and sharp dialogue add charm to the strong plot Daily Mail

H.B. Lyle has found the golden thread between Bond and Holmes in a thriller which engages on every page

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