Sherlock Holmes and The Strange Death of Brigadier-General Delves

Sherlock Holmes and The Strange Death of Brigadier-General Delves is a novel by Tim Symonds. This edition is presented as a Sherlock Holmes story.

Key details

• Author: Tim Symonds
• ISBN: 9781787059641
• 184 pages
• Publication date: 8 May 2022

Synopsis

Set in 1898, the story opens with a chance meeting at a London club between Dr Watson and Colonel “Maiwand Mike” Fenlon, former comrades from their time on the Northwest Frontier and the Battle of Maiwand. Soon afterwards, an urgent cable requests Sherlock Holmes’s assistance from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency off the Normandy coast.

A retired senior officer who once commanded at Maiwand has died suddenly, and Fenlon is being held to face trial for his murder. Questions gather around a phial of patent medicine developed in India to treat cholera, and the presence of Fenlon’s forefinger and thumbprint on its neck despite his insistence that he has never seen it. Most troubling of all is Fenlon’s refusal to enter a plea or explain what happened on the evening of the death, leaving Holmes to untangle what lies behind the silence.

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