Lady Frances Carfax, a lonely heiress who travels with valuable jewels, has stopped writing to her old governess, and Sherlock Holmes sends Watson to Lausanne to pick up her trail. Watson’s clumsy inquiries lead to a bearded stranger and a pious missionary, Dr. Shlessinger, while back in London the hunt for the missing woman becomes a race against time.
One of the darker late Holmes adventures, collected in His Last Bow, and a favourite of Holmes enthusiasts. Download the free EPUB.