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The House of Silk

Name: The House of Silk
Author: Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

The House of Silk is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by British author Anthony Horowitz, published in 2011. The book was promoted with the claim it was the first time the Conan Doyle Estate had authorised a new non-Doyle Sherlock Holmes pastiche.

“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

Anthony Horowitz book The House of Silk

Source: The House of Silk

“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”

Anthony Horowitz book The House of Silk

Source: The House of Silk

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