{"product_id":"the-clockmakers-shroud-mark-collins-9798183517163","title":"The Clockmakers Shroud: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE CLOCKMAKER'S SHROUD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Sherlock Holmes Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Mark Collins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA widow's visit. A bent watch-hand. Three dead men. And a secret buried in the heartbeat of a clock.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Mrs. Pelham arrives at 221B Baker Street shrouded in mourning black, she carries more than grief. Her husband - the distinguished Clerkenwell clockmaker Alderman Josiah Pelham - has been dead three weeks, his passing certified as a simple failure of the heart. But an anonymous letter and a single, strangely twisted clock-hand suggest the truth is something far darker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into the fog-drenched backstreets of Victorian London's clockmaking quarter, where precision and secrecy are equally prized crafts. What begins as a quiet enquiry into one suspicious death quickly spirals into a conspiracy that reaches from the artisan's workbench to the corridors of Scotland Yard - and beyond, into the shadowed offices of the British Crown itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of it all lies the Brotherhood of the Meridian, a craftsmen's society whose noble origins have been hollowed out and turned to ruthless purpose. Its new master - the enigmatic and lethal Bartholomew Crane - controls his network not through loyalty, but through fear. And the instrument of that fear is a stolen secret so strategically devastating it could alter the balance of naval power in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith bodies accumulating and the official apparatus of justice itself compromised, Holmes must navigate a world in which no institution can be trusted and every clock face may conceal a lie. From the ticking workshops of Clerkenwell to a midnight skiff on the Thames, from the fog-shrouded courts of Southwark to a tense confrontation in a riverside house at Chiswick, \u003ci\u003eThe Clockmaker's Shroud\u003c\/i\u003e delivers twenty-five chapters of high Victorian intrigue - meticulous in period detail, relentless in pace, and true in every particular to the voice and method of the world's most famous consulting detective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders, and C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"When the clock stopped, the killing began.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* A richly atmospheric Victorian mystery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* 25 chapters of interlocking intrigue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Holmes and Watson at their most brilliantly matched\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* A standalone novel requiring no prior knowledge of the Holmes canon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798183517163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Mark Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173863268607,"sku":"9798183517163","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-clockmakers-shroud-mark-collins-9798183517163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}