Mrs. Hudson summons Dr. Watson to Baker Street with terrible news: Sherlock Holmes has been dying for three days and refuses food or a doctor. Delirious and feverish, Holmes insists that only one man in London can help, a planter named Culverton Smith, and sends Watson out into the night to fetch him.
A short, tightly built Holmes story, later collected in His Last Bow, with one of the series’ best reversals. Download the free EPUB.