Sherlock Holmes The Empty Tuck-Boxes

De: C Xavier

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When Mycroft Holmes arrives at 221B Baker Street bearing a case of vintage claret and a peculiar wager, Sherlock Holmes finds himself dispatched to St Aldhelm's College — a prestigious Berkshire boarding school plagued by a rash of inexplicable thefts. Seed cakes, potted meats, a prefect's badge, and — most scandalously — the Headmaster's ceremonial wig have all vanished without a trace.

The prime suspect is Algernon Ravenswood — shy, solitary, fourteen years old, and the son of a clergyman whose upcoming parliamentary testimony could reshape the Church's role in English education. A scandal involving the boy would be devastating. Someone, Holmes quickly perceives, is counting on exactly that.

What begins as a farcical schoolboy mystery rapidly reveals itself to be something far more calculated. When the school's priceless Elizabethan Chalice disappears from a locked case using a forged key — and a letter bearing Holmes's own unmistakable hand appears where it has no business being — the detective understands that the tuck-box thefts were merely the opening move. Someone has been dismantling this institution from within, one carefully placed scandal at a time.

His most unlikely allies? A secret brotherhood of eight schoolboys — the Empty Tuck-Box Society — conducting their own meticulous investigation from a dusty attic classroom, recording every stranger, every footstep, and every whisper in the night.

Narrated with warmth and dry wit by Dr John Watson, The Empty Tuck-Boxes is a mystery of misdirection, institutional cunning, and the surprising ingenuity of those least expected to solve anything.

Book 4 of Dr John Watson's Recovered Memoirs. Each adventure stands alone.