A Necessary End

Just six weeks after the events of The Devil at Prayers, Emily Watson is settling into her new home at 221B Baker Street. Although she is enthralled by the cases brought to Holmes, and completely smitten with Andrew Lynch, she is haunted by the conclusion to the Ivanov case. When Holmes receives a letter from a girl whose brother has disappeared, Emily is struck with the sense that she has heard Nicole Camberwell's name before. When they arrive in the North Yorkshire town of Rosedale Abbey, Emily recognises Nicole from the Dmitri Koval crime scene. With the discovery of Simon Camberwell's body, the group is thrown into a thick plot tied to the nearby lead mines and local superstition. This instalment of For Queen and Country brings light to a previously unchronicled case once mentioned by Doctor Watson: the Camberwell poisoning case, which was solved by winding up the dead man's watch. The game is afoot in this atmospheric story full of inner turmoil, chilling implications, and a darker shadow around every corner.