When anarchists slash a painting in the National Portrait Gallery, Scotland Yard have no choice but to call in Sherlock Holmes. Forged paintings, criminal gangs and threats to the monarch are only the start as Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against master criminal Albino to unravel the clues and locate England's long-lost treasure.
When anarchists slash a painting in the National Portrait Gallery, Scotland Yard have no choice but to call in Sherlock Holmes. Forged paintings, criminal gangs and threats to the monarch are only the start as Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against master criminal Albino to unravel the clues and locate England's long-lost treasure.
When anarchists attack a painting of the Prime Minister and suggest that the man himself could be next,Scotland Yard have no choice but to call in Sherlock Holmes.It is just the start of an adventure that sees Holmes and Watson on the trail of a centuries- old puzzle, apuzzle that they are not alone in trying to unravel. As the master criminal The Albino closes in on them,not to mention the mysterious Lord of Strange Deaths, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race tosolve the clues and locate England's long-lost treasure.
“"Stuart Douglas writes a really good pastiche. This reads like a Sherlock Holmes story, with all the memes and tropes one has come to expect from Doyle and his followers." -”
Reviewing the Evidence
Stuart Douglas is the author of numerous short stories and novellas, and has edited several anthologies. He set up Obverse Books in 2009, a small press imprint. He contributed a story to Titan's Encounters of Sherlock Holmes in 2013, and is the Features Editor of the British Fantasy Society journal. He lives in Edinburgh.
When anarchists slash a painting in the National Portrait Gallery, Scotland Yard have no choice but to call in Sherlock Holmes. Forged paintings, exotic criminal gangs and threats to the monarch are only the start as Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against mysterious master criminal the Albino to unravel the clues and locate England's long-lost treasure!
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