Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Vanishing Virtuoso (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245322032)

On a fog-shrouded November evening, the greatest violinist in Europe vanishes from his locked dressing room at the Royal Albert Hall-ninety minutes before curtain, with two thousand spectators waiting and his priceless Stradivarius missing. When a monogrammed bow surfaces in the Thames, the case appears to be a tragic suicide.

But Sherlock Holmes suspects something far more sinister.

Following a trail of cryptic notations and carefully planted clues, Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a labyrinth of Continental intrigue involving a beautiful soprano with dangerous secrets, a murdered middleman in the Limehouse docks, and a cold-blooded Russian aristocrat orchestrating an audacious theft. From the print shops of Fleet Street to the pawnbrokers of Whitechapel, from Mayfair's elegant mansions to a desperate race to the Dover docks, each discovery leads to another, building toward a shocking confrontation-and a revelation that will challenge everything Holmes believes about crime, deception, and justice itself.

In a case where the clues are too perfect and the criminals too careless, Holmes must answer an unsettling question: Is he hunting a master criminal, or has he been playing a role in someone else's carefully composed symphony all along?