At the same time, seen hanging around Socialist meetings, he is also co-opted by a duo of Russian revolutionaries to help them in their own nefarious activities on behalf of their shadowy chief. Saved from certain death by a mysterious Russian woman, Wiggins is convinced by Holmes to help Kell and simultaneously achieve his own objective while keeping his employer in the dark about it. All that changes when his friend, a London police constable, is shot dead by a Russian anarchist after a robbery, and his own attempts to find who is responsible, among the closed, suspicious world of Russian emigres in the city, are both unsuccessful and potentially lethal.
The once chief of the force that served as the detective’s nearly invisible but highly effective eyes and ears on the London streets - Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars.īut our young hero is reluctant to get back into government service after his experiences as a soldier.
Lyle finally does justice to a prominent and promising character from Holmes’ world who had not yet got a place in the sun. Consulting Sherlock Holmes, living in retirement in the country, he is given a unique suggestion.Īnd in this engrossing story, H.B. In the class-conscious British society of the Edwardian era, his biggest problem is that the staffers he has stand out in places where they have to be deployed - like a munitions factory from where plans are being stolen - are easily identified by the ruthless enemy and liquidated. But Captain Vernon Kell has more problems than the lack of funds and support from an oblivious government, and a superior fixated on the idea that Germans are the prime threat and demanding he supply proof. That is a question concerning an army officer in the War Office tasked with combating subversive activities. And with the Great Detective of Baker Street having retired, and James Bond yet to come on the scene, who can Britain depend upon? The First World War is still five years away, but London is already an arena for proxy conflict between its potential European allies or adversaries - and their revolutionaries.
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