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Adventure of the Horologist's Heart: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A Dead Man's Pulse. An Empty Tomb. A Conspiracy Frozen in Stone.
A most singular curiosity, Watson... A dead man's heart keeping immaculate Greenwich time, delivered from a family crypt that remains padlocked from the inside.
On a biting November morning choked by London fog, an eccentric church clockmaker bursts into 221B Baker Street in blind terror. In his hands is an impossibility: a genuine human heart transformed into translucent, alabaster-hard stone-its ventricles intricately fitted with microscopic gold gears and an anchor escapement, ticking rhythmically at sixty beats per minute.
The macabre artifact bears the bespoke hallmark of Lord Julian Hawthorn, a reclusive scholar whose sealed-casket funeral had taken place at Highgate Cemetery merely forty-eight hours prior.
When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson pry open the leaden casket within the family vault, they discover no decaying corpse, but an articulated wooden mannikin weighted with sandbags. Driven by a cryptic coordinate etched beneath the petrified aortic arch, Holmes and Watson are plunged into a dangerous race against time.
To save an innocent life, they must navigate:
A macabre mortuary fraud designed to conceal a living captive.
The dark, real-life 19th-century science of arterial silicification-turning organic tissue into eternal stone.
A desperate heir drowning in gambling debts and a compromised physician bound by silence.
A life-and-death confrontation amidst volatile chemicals along the rising Thames tide at Blackfriars.
Faithfully penned in the classic narrative voice of Dr. John H. Watson, The Adventure of the Horologist's Heart delivers an authentic Victorian gothic mystery brimming with gaslit atmosphere, forensic deduction, and the timeless intellectual duel between justice and deceit.
Step back into the world of 221B Baker Street. Pick up your copy of The Adventure of the Horologist's Heart today.
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