The Ruins of Sherlock Holmes

De: Chris Graham

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What if Sherlock Holmes solved the case perfectly — and it changed nothing?

In this dark and elegant collection of eleven new Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective confronts mysteries in which the truth arrives too late, justice has no office to receive it, and the damage has already been done.

A demolished school leaves three young men unable to prove the education that should have saved them. A lifeboat captain is disgraced by a lie that can be exposed but not undone. A celebrated surgeon's private notebooks reveal the cost of genius. A drowned village, a burned library, a ruined household, a poisoned inheritance, and a widow's impossible plea all bring Holmes to the same terrible edge: he can find the truth, but he cannot restore what has been lost.

Through it all, Dr. Watson begins to question the purpose of his own chronicles. What is the use of recording a case when no wrong is righted? What remains when detection succeeds and the world stays broken?

Bleak, humane, atmospheric, and faithful to the moral seriousness of the original canon, The Ruins of Sherlock Holmes is a casebook of irreversible losses, hard-won truths, and the quiet courage of bearing witness.

The Ruins of Sherlock Holmes is the eighth volume in The Sherlock Holmes Casebooks — original short story collections in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle. Each volume is self-contained.

Also in the series: The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes, The Darker Reaches, The Blind Spots, The Fabrications, The Shadows, The Burials, and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.