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The Man Who Died Thrice
Paperback
Series: 21st Century Holmes
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE MAN WHO DIED THRICE
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
London, 1889. A grieving widow climbs the stairs to 221B Baker Street with a story too strange to be believed: eight months after her husband's funeral, she saw him standing on a crowded railway platform, very much alive.
On the same day, an insurance investigator arrives with a discovery of his own. Three men, buried under three different names over the course of fourteen months, share the same unusual scars, the same old fracture, the same missing tooth. Different funerals. Different cemeteries. Different physicians. The same body.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into an investigation unlike any in their long career: a conspiracy built not around a single murder, but around a corpse recycled again and again to fake the deaths of desperate, dishonest, and very much living men. Behind it stands a Clerkenwell undertaker with a gift for embalming that borders on the uncanny, a corrupted physician too frightened to refuse him, and a network stretching from London's oldest burial grounds to the docks of Rotterdam.
As Holmes traces each false death back to the man who paid for it, he uncovers a trail of ruined marriages, defrauded investors, and a forgotten pauper whose only crime was dying with no one left to claim him. But somewhere in London, a fourth burial is already being arranged, and this time Holmes and Watson must catch the conspirators in the very act of digging up their own deception before a dead man's borrowed body runs out of use for good.
Told in Dr. Watson's own voice and set firmly within the fog-bound streets, cemeteries, and drawing rooms of Victorian London, THE MAN WHO DIED THRICE is a full-length Sherlock Holmes mystery of forgery, fraud, and the strange lengths desperate men will go to escape their own lives, and the quiet justice owed to the dead who are left behind.
Fans of classic detective fiction, atmospheric Victorian mysteries, and the canonical world of Holmes and Watson will find a richly plotted case built for a long, satisfying read.
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