The brand new adventure from the author of A Betrayal in Blood, in
which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are faced with a fiendish locked
room mystery.
Dr Watson has been invited to Crain Manor, where his old friend James
Crain is to hold a spiritualist gathering. During a séance a ghostly
figure is seen, supposedly the spirit of Sybille, the first Lady Crain,
who murdered her husband in the tower room, and whose appearance is said
to be a sign of disaster.
In an attempt to debunk the seance, James's sister Esther declares that
she will sleep in the tower room - but at midnight there is a
bloodcurdling scream and Esther is found dead, a look of horror on her
face, and the room locked from the inside.
Watson sends for Sherlock Holmes to investigate the tragic death. But it
will be anything but straightforward, as there are those who do not want
him to succeed...