Status Updates From The House of Silk (Horowitz...

“But Holmes had no idea of the type of people with whom he was dealing nor the lengths to which they would go to protect themselves.”

Sherlock Holmes is brilliant! Watching him in action is to marvel at someone so bright that he can think ahead to the end of the situation before it begins. Watson, a physician, is bright and holds his own with Holmes, but as his biographer, he “reports” what Holmes is doing and is also in the same place as us, the reader: watching a master of his profession at work.

The House of Silk plot thickens.
Page 94: “Then the girl seemed to punch the air in front of me and I felt something white hot slice across my chest.”