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About Sherlock Holmes - The Mystery of the North Star: A Locked-Room Mystery at Sea: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Sherlock Holmes: New Original Victorian Casefiles)

Fog. Steel. Silence that carries too far. Out on the Dogger Bank, a lightship drifts in the North Sea haze like an iron prison. No one boards unnoticed. No one leaves once the weather turns. And when the horn begins its mournful call, even hardened sailors feel the chilling certainty that the North Star is listening. Captain Ashford is found dead—behind a door chained from the inside. The storm offers easy explanations: illness, accident, bad luck. But the details refuse to fit. A vent has been tampered with. The air reeks of something wrong. And a missing notebook turns grief into suspicion, setting every man aboard against his neighbor. Summoned into the worsening gale, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson step into a world built for confinement: narrow passageways, hidden ducts, and machinery that seems to breathe through iron lungs. Here, a killer doesn’t need a key to a locked room—and leaves no ordinary trace. As the fog thickens and trust collapses, Holmes follows the only witness that cannot lie: the ship’s own breath. Because on the North Star, even the smallest sound carries… and the next hand reaching through the dark may be the one that turns a prison into a tomb. Sherlock Holmes – The Mystery of the North Star is a tense, atmospheric Holmesian pastiche: a claustrophobic maritime locked-room mystery where environment, mechanism, and motive collide.

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