Adventure of the Red Circle
Adventure of the Red Circle
A locked room at 221B Baker Street conceals a secret that even Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore. When Mrs. Hudson's newest lodger refuses to appear in daylight, scribbling cryptic messages instead, the great detective is drawn into a shadow world of Italian blackmail and murder. The Red Circle is a secret society whose reach spans continents, and at its heart lies a woman whose past has become a noose. What begins as a domestic curiosity spirals into a transatlantic conspiracy involving a nobleman, his threatened wife, and the desperate man who would kill to save her. Holmes must unravel the truth before the secret police find them all. Yet this is no ordinary case of justice served: when the final truth emerges, Holmes does something unprecedented. He helps a killer escape. In the entire canon of Sherlock Holmes, no story questions the nature of justice quite like this one.
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