The Silver Blade: The True Chronicle of a Double Mystery

The year is 1908. A young man named J. Howard Lynden bursts into police headquarters, breathless and bloodstained, claiming to have discovered a murdered man in Doctor Mobley Westbrook's office. The victim is Alberto de Sanchez, and the scene he leaves behind is one of total chaos: overturned furniture, shattered glass, and no clear killer in sight. But this is only the first mystery. As detectives pull at the threads of the case, they find themselves unraveling something far more complex than a simple killing. There are secrets in this office, in this family, in the relationships between the doctor and his mysterious patient. The Silver Blade is an intricate period mystery where nothing is as it appears, where every character has something to hide, and where the truth proves more dangerous than the crime itself. For readers who savor the slow, elegant unraveling of early detective fiction, where motive and identity hide in shadow, this novel delivers a satisfying puzzle wrapped in Edwardian atmosphere.