About this title: From the co-creator/writer of Twin Peaks. An anonymous note sends Arthur Conan Doyle--rising young surgeon and demystifier of the occult--on the trail of a dangerous group of elite Satanists called the Brotherhod of the Dark. A rousing fiction debut for Frost. Summer 1994 film release from Universal.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780380720194ISBN:0380720191
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light curl to top corner of few pages, light aging, stk #2521o8. 401 p. read more
"I really enjoyed reading this book. You can really tell that Frost was used to writing for the screen - he does an excellent job of painting very visual pictures in this book. My complaint about this book is that I felt a little let down by the ending. With everything leading up to it, I thought there would be some huge supernatural show-down, and there just wasn't. Still a very fun read and I'm looking forward to reading "The 6 Messiahs"."
"Arthur Conan Doyle, an English Doctor, is asked to a seance by a lovely, but desperate young woman who needs his help. Drawn to her beauty and mystery, he attends the seance and nearly loses his life in the process. Doyle finds himself caught up in a terrible adventure - because of a novel he wrote, relying heavily on the works of a Madame Blavatsky and his own imagination. Unbeknownst to him, he accurately described the activities and plans of a powerful group of people committed to bringing Satan back to the world through his rebirth as a human child, who will then rule the British Isles as king. Doyle learns of his life-threatening faux pas after meeting Jack Sparks, the brother of the one and only Alexander Sparks - leader of the 7. Together they attempt to discover the activities and location of this group, risking their lives to keep the world (and the Queen) safe from the 7.
Both Sparks and Doyle are brilliant men who have a particular talent for deducing the most amazing things from details most of the rest of us would never notice or bother to interpret as they do. Occasionally, being inside Doyle's thoughts is a tiresome business, and although there's a fair amount of action, there were also several laborious discussions where each man pontificated for simply pages and pages. Fair enough read."
"This is part of that particular offshoot of Holmes pastiches that uses not the Great Detective himself, but his author, Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale penned by Twin Peaks scribe Mark Frost thrusts a young Conan Doyle into an occult mystery leading to the rise of a dark power, the identity of which provides a bit of a twist at the end. Conan Doyle serves as a sort of Watson figure to a Holmes stand-in who works as a secret agent for the British government. I found it a crackling yarn that tickled my fancy for Victorian occultism."
"A fanciful novel where Arthru Conan Doyle meets a man who is purportedly the template for Sherlock Holmes, and joins forces with him to oppose a man who is the template for Moriarty, and who is "Holmes" brother."
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