The Oxford Postmortem

The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes

Amidst the pressing chill of winter, a telegram arrives in the night at 221B Baker Street, compelling Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson to travel at once to Oxford, where Holmes’ old acquaintance, a professor who was held to be a master of the science of chemistry, has taken his own life after being inundated in his final days by a number of letters, all apparently wordless, and bearing but a single mysterious code copied out upon their surface. Who has sent these strange notes to the grounds of one of the most distinguished colleges in the world, and what did the professor see in them that drove him to end his life? The novella The Oxford Postmortem is the sixty-third published work in author Compton Thorne’s The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes!