In the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this features Sherlock Holmes in 1888, as he investigates the disappearance of a English lord's son in France. 'Dark, stylish, ingeniously plotted.' Hugh Frase London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.
