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It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. 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Accustomed to seeing him display Sherlock Holmes’ amazing powers of deduction on the big screen, the other guests believe that the actor is the best equipped to uncover the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when a second body is discovered, there is not a doubt in Basil’s mind: a murderer walks among them. What’s more, the killer is staging each crime as a performance, leaving complex clues that bear an eerie resemblance to those found in the pages of Conan Doyle stories. This is a criminal who knows every trick in the book and is playing a deadly literary game. 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