{"product_id":"sherlock-holmes-and-the-midnight-s-humphreys-9798184481043","title":"Sherlock Holmes and The Midnight Departure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe locked compartment. The overnight express. The man who should not have been there.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson arrive at Edinburgh Waverley on an October morning in 1895, they find Inspector Lestrade waiting on the platform with an impossible problem: Sir Edmund Carver, chairman of the Midland and Northern Railway Company, has been found dead in a locked first-class compartment of the overnight express from Euston. The compartment was locked from the inside. The train made no unscheduled stops. No one on board admits to knowing him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case has no obvious beginning and no shortage of suspects - a composed widow collecting documents she should not have requested, a frightened solicitor who accepted a commission he knew was wrong, a retired colonel whose ring tells a different story from his words, and a man on the manifest listed only as \u003ci\u003eJ. Morrow, commercial\u003c\/i\u003e, whose name makes Holmes pause in a way Watson has learned to notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Holmes works his way back through the journey - reconstructing the hours of darkness mile by mile, from the platform at Euston to the Carlisle stop where someone asked a railway guard the precise time - the true shape of the crime emerges: not a crime of passion, but a plan of remarkable patience and precision, three years in the making, with forty-two thousand pounds at its heart and a murdered man at its end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherlock Holmes and The Midnight Departure\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of railway murder, corporate fraud, and Holmesian deduction at its most methodical. Told in Watson's characteristic voice, with the locked-room problem at its centre and a grand assembly of principals at its close, it stands in the tradition of the best of the Canon: atmosphere, ingenuity, and a solution that earns its revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe fifth novel in the series edited by S Humphreys from the manuscript papers of Dr John H. Watson.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. Humphreys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184481043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"S. Humphreys","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002108780799,"sku":"9798184481043","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sherlock-holmes-and-the-midnight-s-humphreys-9798184481043","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}