Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Warwick Ghost (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244908909)

When the medieval walls of Warwick Castle echo with phantom weeping and a ghostly figure appears at the tower window, Lord Edmund Colfax turns to London's only consulting detective.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive to find a household in turmoil. Staff flee in terror. Witnesses report a woman in Tudor dress, standing motionless at the third-floor window before vanishing into thin air. The manifestations follow a precise schedule, occurring only between eleven at night and two in the morning. Most disturbing of all-the apparition seems to seek something, reaching out with desperate, silent pleas.

The truth, when Holmes finally uncovers it, proves far stranger than mechanical fraud or vengeful deception. Hidden within the tower's medieval stones is a secret that spans three decades-a living ghost, neither supernatural nor imagined, whose very existence challenges everything the rational detective thought he understood about family, duty, and the cruelty of circumstance. Justice, he discovers, sometimes requires not exposure but compassion-and the greatest mystery isn't always who committed the crime, but who paid the price for it.