W.G. Grace's Last Case - Author William (Willie) Rushton

It was Lord's, it was June, the sun was shining, the Nineties were Gay, God was in his Heaven, the Queen was on the Isle of Wight and Dr William Gilbert Grace, the great cricketer, was on splendid form and his innings had just reached fifty.

Nevertheless, as he faced the bowling from the infamous Castor Vilebastard (pronounced Vilebart), one of the MCC's less distinguished members, the Doctor was in for a shock. The sudden collapse of the bowling could quickly be traced to an Apache arrow buried between the bowler's shoulder blades.

But who fired the arrow and why?

It was only with the assistance of Dr John Watson, faithful companion of Sherlock Holmes, that W.G. manages to discover the answer to these questions and to thwart a menacing conspiracy. The case takes them back in time to retrace the steps of an extraordinariy shameful MCC tour of the USA and leads them via many byways of late Victorian London (recently devastated by War of the Worlds) to Paris. the Eiffel Tower and even further.

The people involved in the case include not only Buffalo Bill Cody and Dr Henry Jekyll but also A.J. Raffles, Henry James, a number of French Impressionist painters, dancer known as 'La Goulue' and Oscar Wilde, William Rushton's first novel is stylish, and often outrageously funny. It is illustrated with two dozen equally stylish and outrageous line drawings by the author.