Having seen the Liverpool Demon with his own eyes, Dr. Watson sets out to find the fiend’s lair.
Fearing the worst, Holmes searches frantically for his companion in the vast, uncharted labyrinth beneath the city’s streets.
Meanwhile, at Hitchcock’s Menagerie, Inspector Thornton discovers to his horror that it’s feeding time…
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The fifth and final instalment of our second Dynamite Entertainment Sherlock Holmes series – The Liverpool Demon went on sale today.
We actually began work on the book back in late 2009, not long after The Trial of Sherlock Holmes collected edition came out. I know this because I’m currently going through our notes for the series as I work on some extras for the back of the trade (which will be out in 2014).
One thing I won’t be able to do in those extras is to link directly to some of the bits of Liverpool History and folklore featured in the series which you might not have realised were (sort of) true. Things like Springheeled Jack being sighted in the city in 1888, the alarming rate of animal escapes from Liverpool’s many zoos, and Joseph Williamson’s mysterious subterranean labyrinth (and, if you got a steel toe-capped kick out of Drummond and his lads’ bloody antics, you might also enjoy The Gangs of Liverpool: From the Cornermen to the High Rip – The Mobs That Terrorised a City)
It was a genuine pleasure to work with Matt Triano whose ink spattered art brought the grimy Victorian streets of Liverpool to life, and we hope to be able to work with him again. Brennan Wagner did a fantastic job on the colouring, giving us a dirty gas-lit world where blood runs deep Hammer Horror red. Simon Bowland did his usual stand-up job of keeping things legible and remains our favourite letterer in the business. Of course, we have to give special mention to Mr. Francesco Francavilla whose covers are some of the (if not the) best we’ve ever been lucky enough to have on a book.
We really enjoyed writing the series, and we hope you enjoyed reading it. If you did then please let others know about it – tweet, blog, Tumblr, go on forums, maybe even go so far as to speak to people in real life, face to face, and say something like “Have you read that Sherlock Holmes – The Liverpool Demon? It’s good!“. In short, please help to spread the word because without you, the reader, buying and enjoying the books we wouldn’t get to write them. We’d love to write more Sherlock adventures in the future and only you can make that happen.