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by J. B. Varney (Author)
A young ship's officer stands in the sitting room at 221B Baker Street, begging Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, to help recover his sister. "It's desperation that drove me to your door, Sir. You may not know it but...if you won't help us, then I fear my sister will die in the hands of this fiend." Harry Bellamy, Ships Purser on the White Star Line's passenger ship, SS Cymric, tells the story of a malevolent nobleman who is also the Church Rector of the Parish, Sir Algernon Benedict of Saxlingham Nethergate. "He is the author of innumerable evils upon our poor folk, a veritable plague upon the people of Buckinghamshire." "He has all the power Mr. Holmes, and all the wealth, he and his, and they protect him. Though I say so myself, they do."
Benedict, The Deadly Cleric, is a self-confessed assassin and murderer, a kidnapper, blackmailer, and malignant force upon the earth. From the high Himalayas to the Arabian Deserts, from the County of Buckinghamshire to the Highlands of Scotland, the legacy of his evil lives on and now he is joined by his illegitimate son, Captain Treymont Gordon of Scone, a veteran of the Zulu Wars and the Matabele Massacres. Can anyone stop them? And how do you bring down a man who is protected by the system?
From a mad raid upon the villain's own estate to recapture the kidnapped girl, to a desperate dash to the Highlands of Scotland, to a stay in Mycroft Holmes luxurious Surrey Estate of Langholm, from murderous pursuits to near misses, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are living proof that the game...is still afoot. Join them in a deadly game that has never been more dangerous or more pressing, Sherlock Holmes and The Deadly Cleric.
