The Empress of India: A Professor Moriarty NovelIn the late Victorian days, a large amount of gold is arriving unannounced on the cargo ship The Empress of India. Yet the impossible happens--the shipment of gold disappears en route. Sherlock Holmes, brought in by Her Majesty's Government, knows that only one man is both diabolical and clever enough to pull off such an outlandish, daring, and, yes, theoretically impossible crime: Professor James Moriarty. |
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... Man? Missing Altered Patterns Into Thin Air A Pretty Trick The Return The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street 181 187 201 211 224 234 244 251 261 265 273 283 302 304 the empress of india This page intentionally left blank prologue viii.
... Lady of Threadneedle Street. The dining room in the private chambers in the Bank of England was small, furnished with comfortable leather-covered chairs around an oval cherrywood table, rather like a private room at one of the better ...
... Lady of Threadneedle Street pay your wages for the day.” “What do you have in mind?” I asked. “Merely eliminating a few improbabilities,” he told me. And, in his usual infuriatingly taciturn manner, he offered no further information ...
... lady, had used the time to pick up more than a bit of Bengali, a touch of Urdu, and a smattering of the native customs and history. Now, on February 12, 1890, a steamy, rainy Wednesday, the Duke's Own had trotted back into Calcutta, and ...
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Contents
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4 The Maharajas Golden Houri | 40 |
5 The Enigmatic Dr Pin Dok Low | 56 |
6 Government House | 63 |
7 West of Suez | 76 |
17 All at Sea | 164 |
18 Stirring and Twitching | 181 |
19 Elephanta | 187 |
20 A Number of Things | 201 |
21 The Lonely Sea | 211 |
22 HuggerMugger | 224 |
23 The Gathering Storm | 234 |
24 The Marquis of Queensberry Doesnt Rule Here | 244 |
8 The Jadoogar | 81 |
9 The Phansigar | 97 |
10 Punctuated Equilibrium | 110 |
11 The Games Afoot | 125 |
12 The Empress of India | 132 |
13 The Scorpion Killers | 137 |
14 Shipmates | 145 |
15 All That Glisters | 152 |
16 Bombay | 160 |
25 Who Is This Man? | 251 |
26 Missing | 261 |
27 Altered Patterns | 265 |
28 Into Thin Air | 273 |
29 A Pretty Trick | 283 |
30 The Return | 302 |
31 The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street | 304 |