Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective - Brossura

In these five tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes isshown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a youngWinston Churchill in the famed siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the ZimmermanTelegram; establishes a link between two missing light-housekeepers and the royal treasures of King John; contends with asupernatural curse placed upon an eccentric aristocrat and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron.But it is all in a day’s work for the great detective, who continues to defy the odds and lives to ratiocinate another day.