The Adventure of the Second Wife
Even Keel Press (Verlag)
978-0-9957566-5-6 (ISBN)
Strange that Abdülhamid II, the last great Ottoman Sultan, would have Sherlock Holmes stories read to him before he went to sleep. Even stranger is that his obsession helped change the course of history.
The explanation lies in the mystery of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s dying words, that the one Sherlock adventure still to intrigue him was that of ‘The Second Wife’. For no such story exists… Or does it?
The Adventure of the Second Wife is the debut novel of renowned journalist Andrew Finkel – a clever, compelling mystery about a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast who, with the help of a brilliant Turkish professor, tries to solve the enigma of Arthur Conan Doyle’s dying words only to upend his life in the process.
Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989, and has corresponded for a variety of print and broadcast media including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Economist, TIME, The Art Newspaper and CNN. More unusually, he has worked in the Turkish language press both in the newsroom and as a featured columnist; he is food critic and contributing editor for Istanbul’s Cornucopia magazine. His free-lance articles and editorials have appeared in a large number of publications including The Washington Post, The Guardian, the Observer, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, Le Monde Diplomatique and in the Latitudes column of the New York Times. He is also a founding member of P24, an Istanbul-based NGO that supports independent journalism. His handbook, Turkey, What Everyone Needs to Know is published by Oxford University Press and a novel, The Adventure of the Second Wife is published by Even Keel.
Part One: THE FIRST WIFE
Exhibit ‘A’: The Sultan’s Gaoler
Chapter 1: The Arrival of Leyla Arslan
Chapter 2: The Mystery
Chapter 3: My Legacy to Anandita
Chapter 4: 2WIF
Chapter 5: I Buy a Ticket
Chapter 6: The Honeymooners
Chapter 7: More Toby than Mycroft
Chapter 8: Uncle Fred
Chapter 9: Estağfurullah
Exhibit ‘B’: ‘The Adventure of the Second Wife’
The introduction attributed to A. Conan Doyle
Part Two: ELLE
Chapter 10: Grandfather Esad
Chapter 11: The Mystery of the Centre Forward
Chapter 12: The Death of Elle
Chapter 13: The Damat
Chapter 14: The Mosque of the Holy Mantle
Chapter 15: The Capricious Bladder of Adile Sultan
Chapter 16: Leyla Pays for Lunch
Part Three: CONSTANTINOPLE IN LONDON
Chapter 17: The Adventure of the Polka-Dotted Cummerbund
Chapter 18: The Theatre of Life
Chapter 19: Pumpkin Curry
Chapter 20: Royal Blood
Part Four: ‘The power of complexity and the complexity of power’
Chapter 21: The Tale of the Sultan’s Gaoler
Chapter 22: The Purloined Letter
Chapter 23: Our Grandfathers Meet
Chapter 24: An Early Morning in the Abode of Felicity
Chapter 25: ‘The Tragedy of Proud Love’
Part Five: THE SECOND WIFE
Chapter 26: The Bushwacking Sentries of Bhurtee
Chapter 27: The Deadliest Sin
Chapter 28: The Game Was Afoot
Chapter 29: The Earth Moves
Part Six: ‘AND YET I THINK OF YOU’
Chapter 30: A Ghost
Chapter 31: The Loreley
Chapter 32: The Rescue from the Inferno
Chapter 33: Aqua Tofana
Chapter 34: The Smile
Chapter 35: The Rotten Molar
Chapter 36: The Bearers of the Sultan’s Commission
Chapter 37: An Incident Hard to Reconcile with the Settled Order of Nature
Chapter 38: A Final Destination
Chapter 39: Snake
Chapter 40: The (Final) Tale of the Sultan’s Gaoler
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.11.2022 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-9957566-5-1 / 0995756651 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-9957566-5-6 / 9780995756656 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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