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As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.

Hall Pycroft, courtier au service de la célèbre firme Mawson et William's, se voit proposer, par un certain Arthur Pinner qui se prétend agent de change, de travailler pour lui contre le triple de son salaire. Quand il accepte, Arthur Pinner l'envoie auprès de son frère, Harry, afin que l'engagement soit confirmé. Hall Pycroft remarque alors que les deux frères ont des traits identiques. Intrigué, il consulte Sherlock Holmes pour obtenir son avis. Ce que Holmes va découvrir s'avère tout à fait stupéfiant.