An Ensuing Evil and Others

The author of the Sister Fidelma novels presents a collection of historical mysteries ranging from seventh-century Ireland to the world of Sherlock Holmes.Peter Tremayne is one of the best loved writers of historical mysteries. An Ensuing Evil collects fourteen of his short stories featuring a variety of fascinating sleuths including the beloved seventh-century advocate Fidelma of Cashel the nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens and the Victorian icon Sherlock Holmes—who Tremayne imagines here as a young student at Trinity College Dublin.These stories take readers from the Napoleonic Wars to the court of the real-life Macbeth and from the British Raj to the locked bathroom of a twenty-first-century airplane. These fourteen tales of murder mayhem and mystery each display Tremayne''s usual mix of compelling historical detail about the time period and a baffling puzzle that will delight and confound his ever-growing legion of fans.