The Real Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Story of Jerome by Angela Buckley

By Angela Buckley

On 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster leaves the Queen's Theatre, Manchester with a pocket choked with gold and a girl bedecked with diamonds on his arm. He hails a hansom cab unaware detective has been trailing him as he crisscrossed the streets of the town. because the cab pulls away, the detective slips within and arrests the notorious 'Birmingham Forger.' 

The detective is Jerome Caminada, mythical policeman and real-life Victorian super-sleuth. A grasp of conceal with a prepared eye for element and creative equipment of detection, Caminada is on the best of his online game, monitoring infamous criminals during the seedy streets of Manchester's underworld. Relentless in his pursuit, he stalks pickpockets and poisoners, unscrupulous con artists and chilly blooded murderers. 

His groundbreaking detective paintings ends up in the unravelling of vintage crime instances corresponding to the Hackney Carriage homicide in 1889, mystery govt missions and a dangerous war of words together with his arch-rival, a ruthless and violent thief. Caminada's compelling tale bears the entire hallmarks of Arthur Conan Doyle and establishes this indefatigable investigator as the most ambitious detectives of the Victorian period and the true Sherlock Holmes.

As visible within the Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday convey, the days, l. a. Stampa and Lancashire Life.

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