Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Doctor Moreau

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To James Goss, who will wash it down with cava and cat hair.

“Children of the Law,” I said, “(Moreau) is not dead … He has changed his shape—he has changed his body … For a time you will not see him. He is … there—” I pointed upward “—where he can watch you. You cannot see him.

But he can see you. Fear the Law.”

Edward Prendick in The Island of Dr Moreau, H.G. Wells

PART ONE

A MYSTERY IN ROTHERHITHE

CHAPTER ONE

Writers are surrounded by editors. If there is one thing I have learned in my time working on these stories, it is that.

I have always tried to be an honest chronicler, adhering to the facts wherever legally and morally possible. I’ve shuffled things around, presented events in the most dramatic order, clarified dialogue and trimmed the wandering up and down flower beds and gravel driveways to a bare minimum. These reports are intended to be exciting after all, and my editor at The Strand will soon tell me if I run the risk of boring his readers to death.

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