Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Brass Nightingale
A Mystery of Clockwork, Cruelty, and Calculated Revenge

A locked room. A mechanical bird. A murder built with the patience of a craftsman and the precision of a clock.In this original Sherlock Holmes mystery, Dr. Watson recounts one of the most disturbing cases of his long partnership with the great detective — not for its violence, but for the chilling deliberation behind it.When Sir Lionel March, a retired magistrate feared more than respected, is found dead in his sealed bedchamber with an expression of pure terror on his face, the official verdict is heart failure. But his niece, Clara March, knows better. For three nights before his death, something inside the walls sang a strange, mechanical melody at midnight. And on the third night, her uncle's heart gave out.Holmes's investigation leads from the suffocating grandeur of Portland Place to a Clerkenwell workshop where a quiet, brilliant craftsman builds mechanical songbirds of breathtaking beauty. What emerges is a case that asks uncomfortable questions about the distance between justice and law, between righteous anger and cold-blooded murder, and about what happens when a man of extraordinary skill puts his finest work in service of his darkest purpose.Told in the authentic voice of Dr. Watson, The Adventure of the Brass Nightingale is a tale of patient vengeance, moral ambiguity, and the kind of cruelty that wears a legal robe. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle, Lyndsay Faye, and Anthony Horowitz will find a story worthy of the Canon — and a ending that lingers long after the fog lifts from Baker Street.