Tony Richards - The Astonishing Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the Twenty-First Century

The man below him nodded.

“The creature that possessed you was a kind of phantom, so the answer to that question must be ‘absolutely none’. But don’t you see it? Crime committed not for gain, but merely for crime’s own sake. Fear and suffering imposed for no real reason. Harmless, innocent people framed for deeds that they were in no way responsible for. A whole city thrown into turmoil. All of this speaks of a penetrating intellect, yes, and yet a cruel and very devious one, which delights in the harm it causes. The work of an individual – in other words – who has pure, unfettered evil wired in his brain and running through his very blood.”

Rooker was still staring at the great detective with sheer incomprehension. But Holmes raised himself to his full height.

“When I went down the Reichenbach Falls, I returned to life as a human being. But I was not the only man who took that fatal plunge. And the other one, or so it seems, has come back into this world in a different form entirely.”

Holmes turned to face the wall where the true criminal had disappeared. His eyes blazed, and his fists were clenched so tightly they went white around the knuckles.

“You may have evaded me this time,” he muttered through clenched teeth. “But mark my word, sooner or later I shall hunt you down and put an end to you. You have my solemn promise on that score, Professor James Moriarty.”

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Tony Richards was born in 1956 in Greenford, England, and educated at University College School, Hampstead, before going on to study law at Middlesex University.

Although he has written science fiction, mystery and even mainstream stories, he is principally an author of supernatural, dark fantasy and horror fiction. He has published twelve full-length novels, five novellas, and more than ninety short stories.

His debut novel The Harvest Bride made the shortlist for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and his third collection, Going Back (there have been eight published so far) was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award.

© Tony Richards 2018

Tony Richards has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

First published in 2013 by Tony Richards

This edition published in 2018 by Endeavour Media