Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon's wife had disappeared. He demanded the services of Sherlock Holmes to find her. She is much younger than he is. Highly spirited. And American. Three days later the wife is accused of a vile crime.Now she comes to Sherlock Holmes seeking his help to prove her innocence so she can avoid the gallows.Neither noble husband nor wife have been playing by the rules of Victorian moral behavior.So who did it?The wife? The mistress? The younger brother? Someone unknown?Fans of Sherlock Holmes will enjoy this mystery, set in London during the last years of the nineteenth century, and written in the same voice as the beloved stories of the original canon. This new mystery was inspired by the original Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.