“this peculiar incident” [SIGN]
The case takes us to January of 1905, when Holmes and Watson are summoned by Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. A British Secret Service agent was found floating in the Thames with a manuscript smuggled into England that cost her life. The pages are supposedly the minutes of the meeting of a secret group intent on taking over the world: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Holmes and Watson are sent to determine whether it's a hoax, what the perpetrators are trying to accomplish, and why they want to keep their work out of the hands of the Secret Service.
What's different this time around, some 19 years after his previous Holmes novel? Where did he get his inspiration? We talk to Nick about these things, plus his view of storytelling. To him, it has to be in service of something larger than a gimmick, and paraphrasing Victor Hugo, he said, "There's nothing so irresistible as an idea whose time has come."
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- This episode: ihose.co/ihose178
- The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Amazon hardcover)
- The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (Audible)
- Nicholas Meyer (Wikipedia)
- @NicholasMQ (Twitter)
- The Seven Percent Solution
- The West End Horror
- The Canary Trainer
- Holmes and Tevye: Fiddlers on the Roof - Nicholas Meyer and Joel Grey together at the 92nd Street Y
- Full book tour schedule
- Previous episodes mentioned on this show:
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