The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

In this charming,wittyand weird fantasy novelAlexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universeCaptain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to liveand expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haasa consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation. When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former loversMiss Eirene ViolaCaptain Wyndham is drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminalsmenaced by piratesmolested by vampiresalmost devoured by mad godsand called upon to punch a shark. But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailerthe more impossible the case appears. Then againin Khelathra-Ven reality is flexibleand the impossible is Ms. Haas’ stock-in-trade.