Adventure of the Obsidian Apostle: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Untold Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes: From the Tin Dispatch-Box) - Softcover

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A severed railway signal. An accidental baggage swap. A plundered relic of ancient Byzantium.

On an unseasonably raw November twilight, an agitated country curate arrives at 221B Baker Street clutching an identical pigskin Gladstone bag taken by mistake from the overhead netting of the Great Northern Express. Expecting to find his handwritten Sunday sermons, spare waistcoat, and Greek Septuagint, the Reverend Quintus Thorne instead unlocks an unthinkable, grotesque cargo: a water-stained twelfth-century lead water-pipe incised with a crusader cross, three mummified beef kidneys packed in Syrian cedar sawdust, and a hollowed-out ecclesiastical ledger containing five immaculate, blank ivory cylinder seals.

Before Sherlock Holmes can even begin his preliminary examination, a chilling ultimatum arrives from the criminal underworld: surrender the parcel at St. Pancras before midnight, or the curate’s remote Yorkshire vicarage will burn to the ground with everyone inside.

Refusing to yield to extortion, Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson launch a meticulous investigation across three converging trails—from the frosted, severed signal-wires of the Grantham railway cutting to rigorous chemical and botanical analysis in Baker Street, and down into the foggy, rain-swept alleys of Bloomsbury.

The scent ultimately leads beneath the city to the forgotten, tide-washed subterranean vaults where the ancient Fleet Ditch empties into the Thames. There, operating behind an elaborate web of forged provenances, counterweighted metals, and custom-trained bloodhound decoys, lies the lair of an audacious international art syndicate determined to dismantle and sell the legendary Obsidian Apostle—a tenth-century Byzantine gold reliquary plundered from a sacred mountain crypt.

Rich in authentic late-Victorian atmosphere, forensic rigor, and classic deductive brilliance, The Adventure of the Obsidian Apostle is a gripping homage to the traditional canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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