Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Waxwork Widow: A Case of Revenge, Artistry & Justice (The Baker Street Chronicles: A Collection of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries)
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What if the dead could accuse the living—not with words, but with a face?
London, winter of 1890. A wax figure appears in the Albion Gallery—an exhibit billed as an imaginary gentleman of distinguished bearing. But within days, whispers ripple through the crowd: visitors swear they recognise the face. It belongs to Nathaniel Quade, a financier who vanished a decade ago under a cloud of fraud and suspicion. And then, impossibly, the figure begins to change. Each morning its features grow sharper, more specific, more like the man who was never found.
When a man is found dead in a service corridor behind the exhibition hall, the gallery’s desperate proprietor summons Sherlock Holmes. What the great detective uncovers is not a ghost story but something far more unsettling: a web of decade-old murder, financial conspiracy, and one woman’s extraordinary act of patience—a widow who spent three years learning the sculptor’s craft so she could rebuild her husband’s face from memory and mount it on a public plinth for his killers to see.
A case like no other—where the evidence is sculpted in wax, justice wears a veil, and the riddle that only Holmes can solve may leave even him uncertain of the answer.