Theres the scarlet thread of murder and our duty is to unravel it!
A mans body is found in a bloodstained room - without a scratch on it. A name has been partly written in blood on the wall. A womans wedding ring is found...
The sensational story Sherlock Holmes traces, from a dingy London tenement to the plains of the American Wild West, provides a test case in his science of deduction - but the greatest enigma to his new friend, Dr. Watson, is Sherlock Holmes himself.
This atmospheric graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard - the team behind this series' acclaimed The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four and The Valley of Fear - will keep you guessing.
I.N.J. Culbard is an award-winning artist and writer. In 2006, he surpassed thousands of other comic book artists and writers and had his work published in Dark Horse Comics New Recruits anthology . He has since appeared in the anthology series Dark Horse Presents, Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000AD (Brass Sun), and has been published by Vertigo (The New Deadwardians). His graphic novels for SelfMadeHero include The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Valley of Fear, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Deadbeats, The Shadow Out of Time, Celeste, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and At the Mountains of Madness, for which he won the British Fantasy Award in 2011. Ian Edginton is one of Britains best-known comics writers. He has worked for Lucasfilm, Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox to adapt Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Predator and Terminator properties, as well as with the H. G. Wells estate to adapt War of the Worlds for Dark Horse. He adapted Edgar Allan Poes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and H.P. Lovecrafts "The Call of Cthulhu" (both illustrated by DIsraeli) for SelfMadeHeros graphic anthologies Nevermore and The Lovecraft Anthology, Volume I. With artist Rob Deas, he also adapted Pride and Prejudice for SelfMadeHero. In 2007, his graphic novel Scarlet Traces: The Great Game was nominated for Best Limited Series and Best Writer at the prestigious Eisner Awards.
