Before Baker Street, there was Montague.Before partnership with a former army doctor recently returned from Afghanistan, Sherlock Holmes had but the quiet company of his own great intellect. Solitary he might be but, living as he did for the thrill of the chase, it was enough.For a little while, at
Sherlock Holmes and the Affair of the Contentious Contralto
โ Scribed by Fiona-Jane Brown
- Book ID
- 110670661
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 612 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781780926131
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โฆ Synopsis
It is 1910, a widowed Dr Watson moves back to Baker Street to discover that age has done nothing to dim his old friend's thirst for mystery and deduction. One morning after Watson returns from a client to find Holmes in a bright mood - the reason? Holmes and Watson have been invited to the farewell concert of celebrated former Prima Donna of the Warsaw Opera - Irene Adler. The Woman requests their presence! What happens when Holmes meets his one female equal twenty years after their first, curious meeting which Watson described in "A Scandal in Bohemia"?
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