Holmes suspects the madness of the destruction is a cover for something far more rational and calculated.
The titular emperors are actually just plaster busts and all signs point to their destruction being the work of a mentally disturbed immigrant. Holmes is so repulsed by Milverton that after watching the man murdered by one of his victims, he invokes his own moral philosophy by allowing her to get away with it. The title character is the ultimate blackmailer and, what’s worse, believes that since his victims are themselves morally repugnant, standard conventions of morality do not apply to his criminal offenses against him. The trail of clues will eventually lead to a boat named the Sea Unicorn, but this sea drama is a dry as the tobacco pouch that is an essential clue. How often is a detective called upon to investigate death by harpoon and never even get the water, much less a boat? A distinctly unpleasant man is found dead with a harpoon sticking out of his body in a landlubber’s cabin. Was it the work of local Gypsies? Or perhaps someone much, much closer to the family? The boy’s German teacher also disappears, but is quickly found dead. The ten year old son of a very wealthy and influential man has suddenly disappeared from his exclusive prep school. Why does a threatening figure with a beard keep interrupting Violet Smith’s bicycle ride? Even stranger, why he back off when she turns around and starts biking directly toward him? Is he the devil’s messenger or a guardian angel? Holmes has broken the code, but can he prevent a vicious Chicago criminal from taking what he believes is rightly his? The only clues are coded messages in the form of peculiar stick drawings that appear to be dancing left furtively on the man’s country estate. A little digging into the embers of a fire and the financial records of the “dead” man soon has Sherlock shouting fire in a crowded house.Ī young woman from Chicago is near death, the victim of a gunshot. Until Watson and Holmes stop his lieutenant Sebastian Moran, that is.Ī revenge fantasy involves an old man faking his death so he can pin it on the son of the woman who rejected him many decades earlier. An empty house across the street from 221B on Baker Street appears to be the perfect spot from which Moriarty can gain revenge from his actual place in the grave. Watson turns away for a few seconds, and when turns back around there is his old friend.
An old book peddler shows up at his medical office one day, Dr.
Moriarty had fallen to the deaths from atop Reichenbach Falls. Watson saw evidence suggesting that Sherlock and Prof. Sherlock Holmes returns from the dead! Three years earlier, Dr. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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