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It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…

"NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…" It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…

Увлеченная оккультизмом красавица узнает, что через две недели она будет застрелена во время спиритического сеанса. Пожалуй, предотвратить такое сверхъестественное преступление смог бы только один человек во всей Англии — мистер Шерлок Холмс. Но великий сыщик не в силах помочь по двум причинам: во-первых, он вымышленный литературный персонаж, тогда как дело происходит в реальном мире, а во-вторых, «родной отец» Конан Дойл только что сбросил его в пропасть с Рейхенбахского водопада, чем вызвал бурю читательского негодования. Сэру Артуру ничего не остается, как самому отправиться в замок Тракстон-Холл, где должна разыграться криминальная…

Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium "of some renown" and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn't happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle's good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects,…