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I’ve spent years running from my past. After what happened to my parents, I needed to start fresh, far away from the whispers and stares. Now, as a struggling university student, I barely scrape by, living in a new town where no one knows me or the tragedy I’ve tried to forget. To make ends meet, I take on a ghostwriting job for a high-profile client. But the deal comes with one strange condition: their identity must remain a secret. Their only communication is through a distorted voice on an app.

When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Prestons' neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, Matthew's lifelong obsession is to somehow get into the prison, gain access to Nash, and exact the ultimate personal revenge. He devises a plan to become a prison doctor to gain access to Nash.

Handlungszeitpunkt: 1895: Sherlock Holmes soll aufklären, welcher von drei in einem Wohnheim lebenden Studenten eine Abschrift der geheimen Unterlagen einer am nächsten Tag stattfindenden wichtigen Prüfung angefertigt hat. Holmes steht unter starkem Zeitdruck: der Täter muss unbedingt bis zum Prüfungsbeginn gefunden sein, damit das Vorkommnis nicht an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt.

Sherlock Holmes and Watson, on a research trip in a university town, are approached by a professor. The professor believes someone has entered his office and seen, and perhaps copied, the examination papers he is to administer the next day. Holmes begins by narrowing down the suspects to three students who live nearby. After studying several innocuous pieces of evidence, he believes he has identified the culprit. All that remains is to elicit the confession.

'The Adventure of the Three Students' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson are presented with a fascinating problem by a university lecturer whose exam papers have been partially copied. Will Holmes identify the cheater in time for the exam?