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Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter: Sherlock Holmes Meets Karl Marx
Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter Sherlock Holmes Meets Karl Marx Author:Lewis Feuer At last, devotees of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes can learn of his most challenging, and ultimately, his most disappointing investigation. Fortunately, a codicil in the last will and testament of socialist historian and Holmes admirer Professor Harold J. Laski has finally released the one remaining copy of this tale of intrigue from the cus... more »todial care of Lewis Feuer.
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter begins with Holmes's historic meeting with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The task? To locate Marx's missing daughter, Eleanor, and to return her safely to her parent's home.
Holmes's search leads him into the Bohemian socialist intellectual world of London in 1881. With his trusted friend Dr. Watson in tow, Holmes traces Eleanor's trail from the dark archives of the British Museum library to Kelmscott House, a socialist meeting place where Ibsen plays were read aloud. The famous supersleuths meet such luminaries of the perios as George Bernard Shaw, Beatrice Potter, and William Morris. They confront the ominous atheist Edward Aveling and his villianous cohort, Professor Moriarty, who hold the key to this mystery, and to Eleanor Marx's fate -- which, Holmes afrgues, may have been determined long ago by her father's philosophical stance and human failings.« less