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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Author | George Mann |
| Year | Titan Books, 2019 |
| First Published | 2014 |
| ISBN | 9781781160091 |
| Amazon ID | B00N6WTYXI |
| Google Books ID | rmy_BgAAQBAJ |
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German zeppelins rain down death on London, and Dr. Watson is grieving for his nephew, killed on the fields of france. A cryptic summons from Mycroft Holmes reunites Watson with his one–time companion, as Sherlock returns to the capital after years in retirement, tasked with solving three unexplained deaths.
A politician has drowned in the Thames after giving a pro–German speech; a soldier suggests surrender before feeding himself to a tiger; and a suffragette renounces women’s liberation and throws herself under a train.
Are these apparent suicides something more sinister, something to do with the mysterious Spirit Box? Their investigation leads them to Ravensthorpe House, and the curious Seaton Underwood, a man whose spectrographs are said to capture men’s souls…