Author:Arthur Conan Doyle,Ed Glinert,Peter Ackroyd
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!'
The funniest writer now working in the English language . . . His humour has bite and an angry underside that puts him in the great tradition of English satirists
—— Stephen KingRiotous Assembly is a masterpiece of black farce, and makes me suppose that there is a true comic genius here
—— Auberon Waugh , SpectatorSavagely hilarious
—— Sunday MirrorRiotous Assembly has done to the South African police what Catch-22 did to the American Air Force
—— Piers Brendon , Books & BookmenRendell is unrivalled at depicting psychologically warped people and at creating unease through the simplest things. This is another triumph
—— ObserverRuth Rendell is not only the finest crime novelist there is, but one of the finest novelists writing in the English language
—— Gerald Kaufman, ScotsmanBrilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book
—— ScotsmanIn telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.
—— Daily TelegraphMark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy
—— Ian McEwanI have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out
—— Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children
—— Julia Donaldson , Daily ExpressA deservedly acclaimed read.
—— Time Out London
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