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Former police sergeant Maria Kallio gladly left her tiny Finnish hometown of Arpikylä without looking back. But even though Maria despises the small town and the acrid smell from its now-closed copper mine, when Arpikylä's sheriff asks her to serve as deputy sheriff for the summer, she agrees. What should have been a quiet summer soon turns dramatic - and deadly. Meritta, an outspoken local artist, plunges to her death from the copper mine's tower, and Maria immediately suspects someone helped her fall.

Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

Die Enthüllungsjournalistin Violet Hunter wurde entführt − und bis jetzt fehlt jedes Lebenszeichen von ihr. Zuletzt arbeitete sie an einer Story über moderne Sklaverei und hatte sich dafür inkognito als Angestellte in eine Reinigungsfirma eingeschlichen. Sherlock & Watson nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und entdecken ein menschenverachtendes System von Ausbeutung und Abhängigkeiten. Doch als dann mehrere Frauenleichen, allesamt asiatischstämmig, gefunden werden, nimmt der Fall noch viel größere Dimensionen an und reicht bis an die höchsten Regierungskreise.