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Enigma of the Vanishing Dowager: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Paperback
Series: The Untold Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes: From the Tin Dispatch-Box
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A macabre domestic conspiracy, a stolen fortune, and a phantom wandering the streets of Victorian London.
When the notoriously eccentric and tight-fisted widow Mrs. Clarissa Hargrave precipitously leaves her secluded Richmond villa for a health resort in the Swiss Alps, London's financial markets are caught in an unexpected upheaval. Prime riverside properties, irreplaceable family heirlooms, and thousands of pounds in consols are liquidated at fire-sale speed by an unassuming clerk wielding an absolute power of attorney. Scotland Yard sees merely the erratic behavior of an aging recluse.
However, when azure pawn tickets bearing the widow's signature are discovered discarded along a railway embankment, a chilling anomaly emerges. The pledged items are not ordinary trinkets, but fine French couture gowns that have been violently hacked apart and crudely expanded with coarse, tarred cobbler's thread.
Summoned to investigate, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson delve into a labyrinth of forensic deception:
The Tailor's Anomaly: Why would a delicate gentlewoman alter eighty-guinea Parisian silks with the rough stitching of a dockside shoe-mender?
The Pathology of the Pen: A microscopic examination of legal deeds reveals that the tremors of an arthritic hand have been mechanically mimicked with the violent muscular force of a heavy laborer.
The Living Shadow: Witnesses across London report seeing the veiled invalid in broad daylight, even as official telegrams reveal she never arrived on the Continent.
Guided by the faintest physical traces-from the alkaline reek of caustic lye in a cold scullery to fresh mortar concealed within a subterranean coal vault-Holmes and Watson must uncover an audacious scheme of identity theft, greed, and murder inspired by one of Victorian Britain's most notorious true-crime trials.
What Readers Will Discover Inside:
A faithful traditional pastiche honoring the voice, pacing, and atmosphere of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original canon.
Step-by-step forensic deductions focusing on 19th-century document examination, garment pathology, and chemical analysis.
Full interior illustrations matching the classic style of The Strand Magazine.
Complete with Dr. Watson's reflective Prologue and Epilogue.
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