Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Borrowed Landscapes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244671995)

Turner's celebrated Fighting Temeraire has been brutally cut from its frame at the National Gallery during a routine maintenance closure-an impossible theft from a locked building with every staff member accounted for. Sherlock Holmes suspects the obvious crime conceals something far more audacious. As a second painting vanishes from a crowded gallery in full view of witnesses, and a third theft appears imminent before the Prince of Wales's visit, Holmes discovers a conspiracy that challenges everything he understands about theft and authenticity.

With his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes navigates the refined world of 1890s art dealing-where photography promises perfect documentation, and the line between scholarship and fraud grows dangerously thin. From the studios of obsessive collectors to the workshops of master restorers, the investigation reveals a criminal mind that has weaponized expertise itself.

Sherlock Holmes must trust not his eyes but his reason to expose a scheme so sophisticated that proving it may be impossible.