The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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When Lady Maynooth finds her son, the Honorable Ronald Adair, dead in his bedroom, his door has been locked from the inside, and it is clear that no one could have entered or left via the window… Cases involving the upper echelons of Victorian society are nothing new for Holmes and his colleague Dr. Watson: the thirteen stories in this collection include the abduction of the son of the Duke of Holdernesse and the dilemma of an aristocratic debutante who wishes to retrieve a compromising letter before it reaches her noble fiancé. As usual, the surreal is never far from Holmes's orbit, as in the bizarre case of the thief who steals plaster casts of the Emperor Napoleon – only to smash them to pieces. Whilst the official police have no option but to prosecute crime, Holmes and Watson are able to exercise discretion when they see fit.