The Book Plank

The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem,” and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium “of some renown” and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn’t happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle’s good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects, which includes a mysterious foreign Count, a levitating magician, and an irritable old woman with a “familiar.” Meanwhile, Conan Doyle is enchanted by the plight of the capricious Hope Thraxton, who may or may not have a more complicated back-story than it first appears. As Conan Doyle and ...

Author Interview with Vaughn Entwistle Author bio: Vaughn Entwistle grew up in Northern England. Weekends included family outings to ruined castles, gothic manors, and his Grandmother’s antique shop (the most haunted place he’s ever been. Vaughn is a product of the British school system of the 1970s, with all the psychological damage that entails from having one’s psyche flogged of its self-esteem. In the early nineties he moved to Seattle to work as a writer/editor. In his spare time he ran a successful gargoyle-sculpting company for ten years (yes, really!) When not attempting to write with one cat on his lap, a Brittany lying across his feet, and one or more cats sauntering across the keyboard, he likes to strap into a hang glider and hurl him self off various mountains. Entwistle recently moved back to England and currently lives in North Somerset, an area of great natural beauty. When not writing he can be found walking the dog in the Mendip hills, and ex...