The List of the seven

the List of the seven is a fantastic novel of Mark Frost, published in 1993. The main character of the history is Conan Doyle and a character who is supposed to have inspired Sherlock Holmes to him. With several allies, he fights against an criminal organization who wants to make incarnate a force of the evil able to devastate the world.

Detailed beginning of the history

The history starts in Christmas 1884. The doctor Conan Doyle receives a mysterious letter asking him of the assistance, and giving him go to a meeting Spiritisme. This doctor is as a apprentice-novelist, as for the moment no editor wanted to publish.

At this seance, Doyle meets the tempting lady Caroline Nicholson and her brother, which seeks to find the son missing from Nicholson lady. During the meeting, Doyle tries to see whether there is a faking or if it is about a truth Medium. A team of killers arrives then and cuts the throat of both Nicholson. The doctor is saved by an athletic man.

This saver presents himself to Doyle as being Armand Sacker, professor in old story. How proof of its identity, it shows him its chart of visite. Sacker informs Doyle which its last manuscript was read by the members of an occult company, they not took it for a novel, but for a book which revealed their secrecies. That disturbs Doyle, which thought of having written a work of fiction, inspired of what seemed to him wild imaginings: a book of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (founder of the Theosophy). Sacker gives to Doyle a Amulette: an eye of Horus, then Sacker sets out again.

Summary of the continuation of the history

The athletic man was called in fact Jack Sparks and was indeed side of the goods, it fights against his Alexander older brother, who killed his sister, his father and his mother and who is one of the members of the list of Sept. Among her many murders, there is also that of a prostitute (see Jack the eventror).

Jack Sparks two faithful subordinated, colourful: the Barry twins and Larry, former robbers and crocheteurs of locks. They are differentiated because one of them was gash with the face. They can also make heat and lead an engine to vapor when that is necessary. Jack Sparks has also an enormous dog with its service (see the Dog of Baskerville).

In the last third of the book, it proves that only the brother of Nicholson lady was killed. In fact, Nicholson lady and her brother were a couple of actors engaged for the initial seance (the true Nichoslson lady belongs to malicious). The actress is made help by Bram Stoker to elucidate the murder of her colleague and lover. She proves to be an empowered woman, knowing to make use of a firearm, and also knowing to put naive Doyle in her bed. She fights at their side against the older brother of Sparks Jack.

In the list of their seven enemies, there are also William Gul, royal family practitioner (in the true history of Jack the eventror, it is one of the possible culprits, to see). The grandson of the queen Victoria does not form part of the seven, simply because it is too stupid, abêti by the Syphilis. He is easily handled by the seven conspirators. (In the true history of Jack the eventror, it belongs to the possible culprits, to see.

Doyle and its allies succeed in overcoming the seven; nevertheless one of the twins is killed and two their enemies succeed in fleeing, the brother of Sparks Jack and the true Nicholson Lady.

Doyle receives the congratulations of the queen Victoria.

The two Sparks brothers entretuent themselves while falling from a cliff bordering a river (NB: that points out the death of Sherlock Holmes in). The true Nicholson lady flees with Braunau amndt Inn and gives rise to Adolf Hitler.

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