Treadles is also dealing with a wife of his own who isn't quite fitting into the box he has built for her in his mind. Meanwhile Inspector Treadles is trying to solve the murder of a man found in a seldom used house and grateful that it is a straight-forward case that needn't involve Sherlock Holmes.
And Lord Bancroft has renewed his proposal to Charlotte and is offering her codes and ciphers as incentives to accept his proposal. Meanwhile, Lord Ingram is still living with a wife he no longer loves or respects but can't divorce for a number of reasons. The story becomes more complex when Charlotte learns that Lady Ingram's lost love is her illegitimate brother Myron Finch.Ĭharlotte begins her investigation which quickly raises more questions than it answers and involves her with old enemies. He missed this year's meeting and she is convinced that something bad happened to him.
She tells a story of how they meet once a year in a public place and then go on with their lives. Lady Ingram, the estranged wife of Charlotte's good friend and mentor, comes to her to find a man that she loved before she married. Her next case seems simple enough: find a missing man. Watson and continuing to solve problems as the assistant for the reclusive "Sherlock Holmes" whose existence is fabricated. This second Charlotte Holmes novel continues on from the first with Charlotte making her home with Mrs. Charlotte's investigative prowess is challenged as never before: Can she find her brother in timeâ?or will he, too, end up as a nameless corpse somewhere in the belly of London? … ( more) In the meanwhile, Charlotte wrestles with a surprising proposal of marriage, a mysterious stranger woos her sister Livia, and an unidentified body surfaces where least expected. Matters of loyalty and discretion aside, the case becomes even more personal for Charlotte as the missing man is none other than Myron Finch, her illegitimate half brother. Lady Ingram, wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor, wants Sherlock Holmes to find her first love, who failed to show up at their annual rendezvous. Watson, she's had great success helping with all manner of inquiries, but she's not prepared for the new client who arrives at her Upper Baker Street office. As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," aided by the capable Mrs. The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas' Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series.īeing shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use.
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