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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Novel

Originally published
  
1998

Preceded by
  
The Tangled Skein

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Genre
  
Adventure, Mystery

Pages
  
208

Author
  
David Stuart Davies

Page count
  
208


ISBN
  
1848564937 (first edition)

Followed by
  
The Shadow of the Rat: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

Similar
  
David Stuart Davies books, Sherlock Holmes Adventures books, Sherlock Holmes books

The Scroll of the Dead is a 1998 adventure mystery pastiche novel written by David Stuart Davies, featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they investigate a theft from the British Museum with ties to the Black Arts.

Contents

Plot

After Holmes and Watson attend a bogus seance to unmask a phony psychic, they are called upon to investigate a murder and the theft of a scroll from the British Museum. As it turns out, this is but the first key towards uncovering a mysterious Egyptian tomb, and within it, a papyrus that may hold the power of eternal life.

Reprints

Titan Books reprinted the book in 2009, under the title of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Scroll of the Dead as part of its Further Adventures series, which collects a number of noted Holmesian pastiches.

References

The Scroll of the Dead Wikipedia