Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra

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A story for which the world is not yet prepared"-with these words Dr. John Watson, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, describes the legend of Harat, the gigantic rat who ruled over the nation of Bada and its "people who were not humán." Their story, hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, is now told at last, and the tale proves to be as confounding and colorful as any in the Holmes eanon. The bizarre case begins with the visit at Holmes's Baker Street fiat of Elizabeth Trent, a bereft widow determined to clear her husband's name of both suicide and embezzlement. Within hours Mrs. Trent herself is dead, and her suicide note is clue enough to draw the celebrated master of detection and Dr. Watson into a hunt for a brutal murderer that takes them from England to Egypt, to India, and finally to the city Mrs. Trent has fled-rich, mysterious Singapore. Throughout the course of their sea journey Holmes and Watson contend with a series of forrnidable foes, and... Tovább

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A story for which the world is not yet prepared"-with these words Dr. John Watson, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, describes the legend of Harat, the gigantic rat who ruled over the nation of Bada and its "people who were not humán." Their story, hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, is now told at last, and the tale proves to be as confounding and colorful as any in the Holmes eanon. The bizarre case begins with the visit at Holmes's Baker Street fiat of Elizabeth Trent, a bereft widow determined to clear her husband's name of both suicide and embezzlement. Within hours Mrs. Trent herself is dead, and her suicide note is clue enough to draw the celebrated master of detection and Dr. Watson into a hunt for a brutal murderer that takes them from England to Egypt, to India, and finally to the city Mrs. Trent has fled-rich, mysterious Singapore. Throughout the course of their sea journey Holmes and Watson contend with a series of forrnidable foes, and continually the two dauntless travelers uncover connections between their enemies and the cunning, ruthless colonial master of Singapore, Lord Barington. Aboard the Prophet, though, in Captain MacDougall, the fullblooded African seaman who has penetrated deeply into the Bada's mysteries, Holmes and Watson find an able ally. And in the exquisite Widow Han, keeper of the secrets of Singapore, they find an ally and more, as her exotic charms threaten to undo even the inscrutable sleuth's defenses against the fair sex. Ultimately, in the case of the Giant Bat of Sumatra, Holmes must call upon all his intellectual resources, survival tactics, and powers of pure instinct if he is to defeat a creature more appalling than its most gruesome crimes and at the same time forestall yet another horrid death-his own. Vissza