Грэм Мур – лучшие книги

В декабре 1893 года Лондон погрузился в траур. Погиб самый любимый и знаменитый человек Англии - Шерлок Холмс. А убийцей стал... создатель гениального сыщика - сэр Артур Конан Дойл. А потом наступил 1901 год - и Конан Дойл "воскресил Холмса из мертвых". Воскресил так же решительно и неожиданно, как и "убил" когда-то. И вот что самое интересное: в своих дневниках он не упоминает о том, что заставило его вновь начать писать о Холмсе. Правда, после смерти Конан Доила один из дневников бесследно исчез. Прошли десятилетия - а его так и не нашли. Или... все же НАШЛИ? Гарольд Уайт, литературовед и поклонник классических детективов, вступает в…

A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America—from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian

New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country?

The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society—the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal—private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it?

In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem.

It’s the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial taps straight into America’s most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. It’s an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed—until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock’s innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict…

The Sherlockian. Издание на английском языке.

Weil Scotland Yard keinen Anlass sieht, den Mord an einem augenscheinlich leichten M?dchen aufzukl?ren, macht sich Arthur Conan Doyle selbst auf die Suche nach dem M?rder. Er schleicht durch die dunklen Stra?en des viktorianischen London und landet an Orten, die kein Gentleman betreten sollte. Etwa hundert Jahre sp?ter ist ein junger Sherlock-Fan in einen Mordfall verstrickt, bei dem Doyles verschwundenes Tagebuch und einige F?lle seines ber?hmten Detektivs eine wichtige Rolle spielen.