Beschrijving
This work is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche and does not originate from Sir Arthur Conan DoyleLondon, 1889. A brutal murder sends shockwaves through the highest circles of the Empire.When Sir Charles Pemberton, former Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, is found murdered in his own study, no one suspects that this is only the beginning. A single strip of scarlet silk stuffed into the dead man’s mouth-marked with a cryptic cipher-is the only clue the killer leaves behind.Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a case that defies everything he has ever encountered.Five men. One deadly secret. And a traitor who has lurked at the heart of the British Government for twenty years.They call him the \
