The Real Sherlock Holmes

About This Book

Born to immigrant parents, in the slums of nineteenth-century Manchester, Jerome Caminada overcame the odds to become one of the city’s finest police detectives. A master of disguise, with a keen eye for detail and ingenious methods of deduction, Detective Caminada pursued notorious criminals through the seedy streets of Manchester’s underworld. Known as a ‘terror to evil-doers’, he stalked pickpockets and thieves, ruthless con artists and cold-blooded killers. Through his groundbreaking detective work, he captured an escaped political prisoner, confronted his own Professor Moriarty, played a pivotal role in the nationwide Fenian dynamite conspirators, and exposed a cross-dressing ball. At the peak of his dazzling career, and using methods worthy of his fictional counterpart, Detective Caminada solved his most famous case, the Manchester Cab Mystery, which established him as one of the most formidable detectives of the Victorian era and a real-life Sherlock Holmes.