Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ruby Elephants by Chris James

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ruby Elephants by Chris James

It is summer 1890 and the game is afoot. When an elephant escapes from the London Zoological Gardens, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in one of their strangest cases yet. Engaged by a jeweller in fear for his life, the trail leads Sherlock to two secret societies, each pursuing the eight ruby elephants said to unlock a vault containing the lost Nizam diamond. Standing in his way are some deadly foes: the Archangels: assassins in top hats and tailcoats, hell bent on the murder of the great detective and the acquisition of the treasures of the realm. The adventure leads the intrepid pair to Lord's Cricket Ground, the Royal Albert Hall, a bizarre series of thefts at the National Gallery, deepest rural Suffolk and ultimately the very heart of the Empire. With high speed chases on Penny Farthings and a cast of eccentric characters, it takes all of Holmes' ingenuity - and a little help from Mycroft - to unravel this elephantine mystery.

Christopher James is a well-known photographer and artist whose pictures, paintings, and alternative process prints have been shown in galleries and museums around the United States and overseas. His work has been widely published and shown, with shows at The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art among them. The first two editions of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, have won international critical acclaim and are widely regarded as the authoritative texts in the genre of alternative process photography and photographically linked media and culture by artists, curators, historians, and educators. After 13 years at Harvard University, Christopher is now University Professor and Director of the MFA in Photography program at Lesley University's College of Art and Design. He is also a proficient scuba diver, a painter, and a graphic designer. www.christopherjames-studio.com is his website.

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ISBN 13	9781780928210
ISBN 10	1780928211
Title	Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ruby Elephants
Author	Chris James
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MX Publishing
Year published	2015-11-18
Number of pages	260
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