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Enigma of the Chantry Psalter: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Enigma of the Chantry Psalter: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Barua, Ankur

Paperback

Series: The Untold Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes: From the Tin Dispatch-Box

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798173909404
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
**A priceless medieval manuscript. A phantom poisoner. A lethal secret waiting five centuries to be unveiled.**

When the Reverend Tobias Winter arrives at 221B Baker Street on an autumn evening in 1894, he brings no crude tale of common violence, but a mystery of exquisite subtlety: a fourteenth-century illuminated leaf from a sacred chantry psalter whose painted monarch is slowly, inexplicably fading. While the holy text and gold leaf remain pristine, the royal mantle of King David-once a brilliant ultramarine lapis lazuli-is turning a sickly slate grey. More alarming still, the vellum exhales the sweet, deadly odor of prussic acid.

What begins as a seemingly impossible decay of ancient pigments quickly draws Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson into the shadowy, frost-bitten cloisters of St. Jude's-in-the-Fens in Clerkenwell. There, beneath the gaze of recumbent stone crusaders, Holmes deduces a diabolical truth: the vellum is not simply decaying-it is being systematically murdered. The illuminated leaf is a palimpsest, concealing beneath its sacred imagery a long-lost royal charter of King Edward II that dictates the fate of a vast Yorkshire fortune.

To catch an educated adversary whose weapon of choice is invisible gas, Holmes and Watson must mount a midnight vigil from the heights of the organ loft, outwitting a predator who uses the refined chemistry of the nineteenth century to wage the legal battles of the fourteenth.

Penned in the authentic, classic voice of Dr. John H. Watson, *Enigma of the Chantry Psalter* is a rich, atmosphere-soaked Victorian pastiche complete with forensic deduction, scholarly intrigue, and period illustrations that will delight traditional Sherlockians and historical mystery lovers alike.

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