"I assure you that themost winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money." Sherlock Holmes toDr. WatsoninThe Sign of Four.Early 1902 On the eve of Newgate Prisons demolition, Watson spies Holmes leaving a public sale of the prisons miscellany in the company of a beautiful stranger and in possession of an unusual trophy the death mask of a woman who, more than twenty years earlier, had been executed for the murder of her three children. Holmes agrees to satisfy Watsons curiosity about the memento by recounting the decadesold history of its subject.Late December, 1878. Ayoung Sherlock Holmes is living in a modest room at Montague Street, dividing his time between the lecture halls and the laboratories, "...studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient".At the shop of the eccentric, old bookseller, Brodie, Holmes is introduced to the beautiful Violet Rose Turner, the young mistress and protg ofProfessor James Moriarty, and the mother of his three children.When a house fire takes the lives ofMoriartys children, it is presumed to be accidental until Miss Turners suspicious conduct prompts a further investigation, which reveals that the children had been poisoned before the fire was deliberately set. Miss Turner is charged with the murders as her trial proceeds, Holmes sets out to prove her innocence, yet each of his discoveries seems only to confirm her guilt even as the courtroom testimony...

Binding: Hardcover;388 pages; Publisher: MX Publishing; Classification: FFC; Weight: 768 g; Dimensions: 148 x 224 x 36

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