Draco, Draconis

To quote Watson's account from the back "Watson!" I heard Holmes' voice call me in the distance. I called my friend's name at the top of my voice, and heard the echoes resound and fade away. I started running again, trying to watch the ditch and at the same time my immediate surroundings. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something dart by at an incredible speed along one side of the ditch. I stopped and aimed my revolver. If it were of this world, the bullets would at least slow it down. 'If'? It had to be of this world. Fantastic creatures could never leave prints more than on foot long. I was panting so hard that I realised too late that the rapid breathing of whatever was hunting me was now at my shoulders. I smelled its sickening stench as my body turned instinctively. I saw nothing, only a huge dark blur which leapt towards me and struck me full in the chest. Before I touched the ground, I realised that I was already losing consciousness. My revolver fired, irremediably late, at a black sky stained with red. " Numerous pictures of Granada's Sherlock Holmes Series starring Jeremy Brett, Edward HArdwicke & David Burke... Very nice book.