Art in the Blood

In October, the Mysterious Bookshop will be publishing a limited deluxe edition of Bonnie MacBird’s debut novel and Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Art in the Blood.

Their edition will be bound in marbled boards with a leather spine. It will be printed in a limited run of only sixty copies, numbered and signed by the author. Also of note, their edition will be the only one to feature a foreword by Leslie Klinger, annotations by MacBird, and both black and white and color illustrations (one of which is included above)!

It’s a snowy December in 1888. A perfumed letter featuring a doubly encoded message arrives at 221B Baker Street, London. A disastrous Ripper investigation has left Sherlock Holmes in a deep depression and back on cocaine. He travels to Paris to help find the son of a French cabaret star, but when he and Watson get there they discover more crimes--including a burglary and several murders--that seem to be connected to the kidnapping. According to Klinger, the book "… has the three key ingredients for a delicious pastiche: Meticulous research, plausibility, and grand fun!" 

Limited: Unlike the trade edition, the limited will have illustrations and annotations.  The binding will be the usual leather and marbled boards and limited to only 60 numbered copies, PLUS the limited will be the true first edition!