Sherlock Holmes in The Case of Dorian Gray (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245366616)

London, 1892. A body lies in a locked room, a knife through its heart. The corpse is that of an elderly man, withered and corrupted-yet it wears the rings of Dorian Gray, the infamous aesthete who has not aged a day in twenty years.

Before the body stands a portrait: a beautiful young man frozen forever at twenty-two, glowing with youth and innocence. The painting that Dorian Gray kept hidden from the world, locked away where no one could see it. The painting that, according to legend, bore the marks of his sins while he remained eternally young.

But Sherlock Holmes does not believe in legends.

Summoned to the scene by Lord Henry Wotton, Holmes begins to unravel a mystery that defies rational explanation. Did Dorian Gray possess a supernatural portrait that aged in his place? Or is something far more sinister at work?

As Holmes investigates, he uncovers a trail of deaths and disappearances spanning two decades: a young actress driven to suicide, a painter who vanished without trace, a vengeful brother killed in a suspicious accident. All roads lead back to the beautiful, unchanging Dorian Gray. But Holmes is not so sure.

In this compelling mystery that bridges Oscar Wilde's Gothic masterpiece with Arthur Conan Doyle's rational detective, Sherlock Holmes must solve an impossible case-and in doing so, restore humanity to a man the world has transformed into a monster.