Four cases. Four carefully constructed lies. One detective who refuses to accept the story the evidence was arranged to tell. A young woman arrives barefoot with a word carved into her arm and a missing man accused of the attack. An armourer-sergeant offers eight accounts of the shot that killed his wife, while the room accepts only one. A bridegroom vanishes into the Isles of Scilly after his bride’s fatal fall. A respected police inspector turns official records, private knowledge and the machinery of the law against the woman who once trusted him. From secluded college woods to a Kent garrison, an island hotel and the offices of Scotland Yard, Dr Watson records four investigations built on physical clues, competing stories and deductions the reader can follow. Sherlock Holmes: Four Cases in Deduction is a collection of four original, complete short mysteries in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle. No previous knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes Casebooks is required.
