Timothy Miller

"Sherlock Holmes has retired to the Sussex countryside . . . that is, until a most formidable puzzle is dropped upon his doorstep by a certain Colonel Pickering. One Miss Eliza Doolittle, once nothing more than a cockney guttersnipe, has been transformed into a proper lady of London -- perhaps even a duchess? -- as if overnight. When Col. Pickering recovered from a bout of malaria, he was astounded at the woman before him. Is it possible this transformation...

Sherlock Holmes chases art dealer Theo Van Gogh through Paris on the trail of a forgery ring responsible for the theft of some of the Louvre's greatest masterpieces, only to happen upon the scene of the pronounced suicide and suspected murder of Vincent Van Gogh.