a chance encounter with one of his fellow students at Bart’s Hospital in an East End pub turns nasty, but leads to his first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. So its 1880 and Dr Watson is back in London following his military service in Afghanistan, flat broke and desperate to forget the nightmarish experience that saw him invalided out of the Army. In the ever-expanding world of Sherlock Holmes pastiche the great detective and HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos are by no means strangers ( Shadows over Baker Street, The adventure of the Innsmouth Whaler, etc) but I do believe that James Lovegrove’s The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (It is the first of the three-part Cthulhu Casebooks) may be the first one that commences at the very beginning of the Holmes Watson relationship and spins the pair off on a series of supernatural adventures rather than into the world of logical criminal investigations created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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