Thu, Sep 26
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Nicholas Meyer, Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
Nicholas Meyer will be in conversation with Bob Wallace, former editor of Rolling Stone. Nicholas Meyer has been a household name among Sherlock fans for fifty years, since publishing his bestselling pastiche The Seven Per-Cent Solution in 1974 (which was adapted into a widely celebrated film).
Date, Time & Location
Sep 26, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Pre-order Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell (hardcover $26.95, publishes August 27, 2024) from CW here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
About Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
Nicholas Meyer has unearthed his sixth "lost manuscript" from Dr. Watson.
Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson across the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram.
June, 1916. With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, M.D. is operating on the wounded full-time when his labors are interrupted by a knock on his door, revealing Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a cracked rib. The story he has to tell will set in motion a series of world-changing events in the most consequential case of the detective’s career. Amid rebellion in Ireland and revolution in Russia, Germany has a secret plan to win the war and Sir William Melville of the British Secret Service dispatches the two aging friends to learn what the scheme is before it can be put into effect. In pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram sent from Berlin to an unknown recipient in Mexico, Holmes and Watson must cross the Atlantic, dodge German U-boats and assassination attempts, and evade the intrigues of young J. Edgar Hoover, while enlisting the help of a beautiful, eccentric Washington socialite as they seek to foil the schemes of Holmes’s nemesis, the escaped German spymaster Von Bork. Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell plunges Holmes into a world that eerily resembles our own, where entangling alliances, treaties, and human frailty threaten to create another cataclysm.
About Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer is the “editor” of several Watson manuscripts, including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His screenplay of the film received an Oscar nomination. His film credits include writing and directing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He wrote and directed Time After Time, co-created Medici: Masters of Florence, and directed The Day After, about nuclear war that attracted the largest audience ever for a television movie. A native of New York City, he lives in Santa Monica, California.