Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Yellow Wallpaper (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245035086)

When Sherlock Holmes receives a desperate request to investigate a young woman's mental collapse, he expects another exercise in logical deduction. The facts seem straightforward: Charlotte Templeton, confined for nervous exhaustion following childbirth, deteriorated catastrophically during three months of the fashionable "rest cure," where she was surrounded by sickly, yellow wallpaper.

Her husband, a respectable physician, insists he followed proper medical protocols. Her family claims he drove a sane woman mad through barbarous treatment. Both demand Holmes prove them right.

Yet the more evidence Holmes gathers, the less certain he becomes. Was Charlotte mad before treatment, or made mad by it? Does hereditary vulnerability explain her collapse, or merely her susceptibility to harm? Can the methods that solve crimes unlock the mysteries of the human mind?

For the first time in his career, Holmes faces a case where logic provides no clear answer. And his friend Dr. Watson, moved by Charlotte's suffering, begins to question whether Holmes's legendary certainty is wisdom-or merely another form of blindness.