The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes

Being a Fifth Collection of Cases from the Journals of Dr. John H. Watson

De: Chris Graham

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Holmes solves the case. The damage was already done.

A factory girl is dying of a bone disease every doctor in London refuses to name — because naming it means naming the company. A government clerk hangs himself in his study; the papers he burned matter more than the ones he left. A solicitor's clerk is found dead on a North Yorkshire corpse road, arranged like a funeral procession, pointing investigators toward the wrong parish. The land itself has been made into a lie.

In The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson chronicles eleven investigations into the machinery of Victorian life — the company doctor who signs what he is told, the policeman who arrests who he is paid to, the husband who certifies his wife insane because the law allows it. Holmes deduces with his customary precision. The culprits are named. Some are convicted.

But the systems that enabled them are intact. The harm is done. The record remains.

The question is not whether Holmes will find the truth. The question is what the truth is worth, once found.

The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is the fifth volume in The Sherlock Holmes Casebooks — original short story collections in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle, set in late Victorian London.

Also in the series: The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes, The Darker Reaches of Sherlock Holmes, The Blind Spots of Sherlock Holmes, and The Fabrications of Sherlock Holmes.