The Dragon Turn by Shane Peacock

Author:Shane Peacock
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781770492738
Publisher: Tundra
Published: 2011-10-10T22:00:00+00:00

On the street outside the station, Holmes has the feeling that someone is watching him. He scans the court in Scotland Yard and thinks he sees a dark face peering around a corner just two buildings away. He runs toward it, but by the time he arrives, it has flown, out into the heavy crowds on Whitehall Street. Sherlock squints and looks into the masses. He thinks he sees the man, wearing a black greatcoat, much like Riyah’s.

The boy pauses in the majestic park in front of Buckingham Palace for a while on his way home, watching the swans in the queen’s ponds. He decides to walk past The Egyptian Hall. It is a hot afternoon and the front doors are open. The boy can hear music and a beautiful voice. It sounds familiar. He walks up to the entrance. Someone is accompanying a woman on a piano, both the playing and the singing informal, like a rehearsal. The voice is familiar indeed. Irene. Then he hears a scream, a bloodcurdling shriek. He runs into the lobby, past a few attendants, who are lounging about and smoking. He rips open the doors of the amphitheater and comes to the top of the lower bowl. Irene Doyle is standing on the stage close to a piano, where Hemsworth sits playing. The magician rises.

“Master Holmes?”

“Sherlock?”

“Are you all right, Miss Doyle?”

“I am fine, Master Holmes.”

The attendants enter and seize the boy from behind.

“Unhand him, gentleman,” says Hemsworth. “I shall take care of this.” The attendants slouch back to the lobby.

“But that scream …”

“It is a frightening show, my boy. Severed heads, live dragons?”

“We are working on a song, Sherlock. There may be,” she smiles at Hemsworth, “a scream involved.”

Holmes doesn’t like that smile.

“I hear you are coming tomorrow, Holmes?”

“Where did you hear that?”

“Well, I am clairvoyant, you know. I read minds, tell the future, that sort of thing.”

“Are you finished, Miss Doyle? Would you like me to accompany you home?”

Holmes hasn’t had a chance to tell Irene about his suspicions. It also occurs to him that she might consider his visit to the police a betrayal, an interference that might destroy her great opportunity. He glances at Hemsworth, who grins back at him.

“We have just begun, Sherlock. You go on. I will see you later.”

What if she is rehearsing with a murderer?

“Are you sure?”

“Please go.”

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