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In the past . . . On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a new start in the tight-knit South London community...

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, and John D. MacDonald all got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by the magazine.

Per Sherlock Holmes c'era soltanto una donna, e tale donna rispondeva al nome di Irene Adler, il cui ricordo è senz'altro dubbio e discutibile. Un intrigo che rischia di influenzare le sorti dell'intera Europa... Sherlock Holmes dovrà dar fondo a tutte le sue straordinarie doti investigative per scongiurare uno scandalo internazionale, ma in quest'avventura l'infallibile detective di Baker Street, incontrerà per la prima ed ultima volta il suo nemico più tenero e feroce, del quale conserverà il ricordo più tenero e straziante.