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On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon.

The small village of Maldon is controlled by the wealthy and rapacious FitzCorbucion family, led by Hamo FitzCorbucion, the lord of Blackwater Castle. When his eldest son, Guy, is found murdered, an enraged Hamo demands justice. Into this charged atmosphere arrives a tribunal, led by soldier Ralph Delchard and lawyer Gervase Bret. Surveying the lands of Maldon, the tribunal detects irregularities in various deeds, and plans to call the FitzCorbucion family to account.

January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as ‘conchies’ and ‘shirkers’, subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch’s group of conscientious objectors, makes a rousing speech at a meeting of the No-Conscription Fellowship, refusing to be ‘an instrument of slaughter in a khaki uniform’.

The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp bounded onstage to join the two that had been written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third demon seemed too much like the real thing. Even Nicholas Bracewell, the company mainstay, was shaken when, next time the play was given, only one devil appeared. The second, poor fellow, was now only a little red heap backstage. Murdered.

Chicago, 1931. While the Great Depression has tightened its grip on the world, there are still some who have the means to make their dreams a reality. One of these men is Hobart St John, who wants a mansion in the suburb of Oak Park. For young Welsh architect Merlin Richards, the opportunity to work on the house is an answer to his prayer.

Sherlock Holmes ist bei der reichen Gräfin Olitzky auf Besuch. Diese erzählt Holmes von einem allwissenden Schachautomaten. Es heißt, man könne dem Automaten alle Fragen stellen und dieser könnte sie beantworten. Das einzig Beunruhigende daran war, dass, wo immer der Schachautomat vorstellig war, es kurz darauf einen Unglücksfall innerhalb der Familie gab. Deshalb bittet die Gräfin Sherlock Holmes um dessen Anwesenheit, wenn am selbigen Abend der Schachautomat in ihrem Hause vorgestellt wird.

Sherlock Holmes ist bei der reichen Gräfin Olitzky auf Besuch. Diese erzählt Holmes von einem allwissenden Schachautomaten. Es heißt, man könne dem Automaten alle Fragen stellen und dieser könnte sie beantworten. Das einzig Beunruhigende daran war, dass, wo immer der Schachautomat vorstellig war, es kurz darauf einen Unglücksfall innerhalb der Familie gab. Deshalb bittet die Gräfin Sherlock Holmes um dessen Anwesenheit, wenn am selbigen Abend der Schachautomat in ihrem Hause vorgestellt wird.