Paris, 1890. When Sherlock Holmes finds himself chasing an art dealer
through the streets of Paris, he's certain he's smoked out one of the
principals of a cunning forgery ring responsible for the theft of some
of the Louvre's greatest masterpieces. But for once, Holmes is dead
wrong.
He doesn't know that the dealer, Theo Van Gogh, is rushing to the side
of his brother, who lies dying of a gunshot wound in Auvers. He doesn't
know that the dealer's brother is a penniless misfit artist named
Vincent, known to few and mourned by even fewer.
Officialdom pronounces the death a suicide, but a few minutes at the
scene convinces Holmes it was murder. And he's bulldog-determined to
discover why a penniless painter who harmed no one had to be killed-and
who killed him. Who could profit from Vincent's death? How is the murder
entwined with his own forgery investigation?
Holmes must retrace the last months of Vincent's life, testing his
mettle against men like the brutal Paul Gauguin and the secretive
Toulouse-Lautrec, all the while searching for the girl Olympia, whom
Vincent named with his dying breath. She can provide the truth, but can
anyone provide the proof? From the madhouse of St. Remy to the rooftops
of Paris, Holmes hunts a killer--while the killer hunts him.
