Doyle’s tame existence is being forever altered. It’s an unlikely story, but Sparks does appear to have access to resources far beyond the norm. During their off-road trek across the North Counties, he learns his companion is one Jack Sparks, special agent to Queen Victoria. The one truth that Doyle has learned in the medieval college town is that his benefactor isn’t the antiquities gownsman, as he claimed. Once again, Doyle is rescued by the timely appearance of the tall professor, and led across the rooftops of Cambridge to safety. The public safety of a local inn provides little comfort the cloaked villains from the London seance arrive at midnight. In his wanderings through the hallowed halls of the university, Doyle is stalked and attacked by transforming gargoyles. Doyle hops a train to Cambridge to track down the professor. Though he doesn’t know it, Doyle immediately becomes the prime suspect. Only a few streets away, however, a prostitute has been murdered-gutted with the skill of a surgeon. Salvation comes with the timely intervention of a tall, rangy stranger, who appears from nowhere and foils the homicidal frauds. But when he unveils the medium’s offstage shenanigans, the event turns into a blood sport, and Doyle barely escapes with his life. Unable to resist the invitation to an occult gathering, Dr. With cameo appearance by Queen Victoria, and pre-”Dracula” Bram Stoker, one of the treats awaiting readers of “The List Of 7” is the opportunity to discover, at the same time that Arthur Conan Doyle does, the heroic and villainous templates for all the key players in the Sherlock Holmes stories. In “The List of 7,” Mark Frost delivers a meld that’s part historical novel, part Sherlock Holmes mystery and part occult/horror tale. The year is 1884, the location is London, and the missive recipient is aspiring writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s more than enough bait to lure the bachelor surgeon, and fervent explorer of the occult, into a cunning-and lethal-trap. The letter is unsigned, but the subtext indicates a fair damsel is in distress. A dull Christmastide turns cryptic as a letter slips under the door, imploring the doctor to attend a seance being staged the following evening.
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