Sherlock Holmes - Murder on the Brighton Line and Other Stories - Mike Hogan - Bog

Who is the gentleman found dead in a first-class compartment of the London to Brighton express? The victim has a fortune in jewels and a fabulous painting in his luggage. Who killed him? Holmes tackles the Murder on the Brighton Line case despite the obstruction of the police sergeant in charge. Holmes and Watson visit the Crystal Palace where Holmes has arranged a rendezvous with a mysterious, and murderous, lady. She tells Holmes she has but a few days before she must submit to a fate worse than death. Or is all as it seems? Two deaths occur in the secret clubhouse of the Amateur Mendicant Society. Are the deaths connected with a mysterious discovery in the basement? The skull of William Shakespeare has been stolen from his tomb in the Holy Trinty Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Holmes' investigation leads him to a momentous discovery and a bizarre duel of wits with a Tibetan sage and a Prussian nobleman. Four stories of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson told in the traditional style.