Sherlock Holmes The Devil's Dust Author:James Lovegrove London, 1883. Mrs Hudson begs Holmes and Watson to help her friend, a fellow landlady whose lodger has been found poisoned. The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a mining engineer recently returned from Africa, rented the room un... more »der a false name, and appears to have been on the run. His last act before his death was to scrawl 'Devil's Dust' in his own blood. What what he trying to convey, and what is the role of aged big game hunter Allan Quatermain, who visited the man just before his murder?« less
Good adventure novel. Lovegrove generally captures the narrative style of the late nineteenth century. For Holmes fans, the story owes more to H. Rider Haggard than Conan Doyle.