The Hand of a Murderer: A Noir Holmes Story Volume Five (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798246993569)

The Hand of a Murderer

A Noir Holmes Story Volume V

Violence is rarely spontaneous. It is arranged.

As Holmes moves closer to the machinery behind a crime, he steps nearer to violence than ever before, not to stop it, but to understand how it is permitted to occur. The evidence is clear. The motives are known. And yet responsibility remains carefully displaced.

In this case, the act itself is not the mystery. The mystery is how systems absorb guilt, how hands are guided, and how culpability dissolves long before blood is shed.

What Holmes uncovers cannot be unseen. Justice, once examined closely, proves less about punishment than management.

The Hand of a Murderer is the fifth volume in the Noir Holmes series: a controlled, atmospheric reimagining of Sherlock Holmes that examines violence not as chaos, but as process.

For readers who value classic detective fiction shaped by patience, consequence, and respect for its origins.

Each volume stands alone. Together, the series traces the erosion of certainty and the cost of understanding too much.

Author: Jonathan James Schemers
ISBN-13: 9798246993569
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2026
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d