The uncharacteristically nervous great detective tackles the case of the tobacco millionaire and the Glastonbury Fragments, one of the most bizarre investigations of Holmes' and Watson's long partnership. In the spring of 1895, Colonel John Vincent Harman, an American inventor of an ingenious camera, was the object of anonymous threats to leave Britain, escalating to the abduction of his son, Jay. Behind this criminal activity, Holmes detected the hand of Drew, his old enemy, Professor Moriarty's lieutenant, an ex-Scotland Yard detective and worshipper of Demeter, the goddess of fertility. Drew suspected that Harman's stereoscope could uncover the mystery of a perverse religious cult, a priceless treasure which, if possessed, Moriarty believes, would give him power over the whole world.
- ISBN10 0094746206
- ISBN13 9780094746206
- Publish Date 21 August 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable and Robinson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English