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When Moira Keegan tries to recruit Sherlock Holmes to save her father’s life, Holmes, Watson and Mrs. Hudson do their best to convince the 12-year old that she has misunderstood her father’s situation. When, a short time later, they read that Moira’s father was found dead in a sleazy waterfront inn, the members of London’s premier consulting detective agency have a new client and a singular purpose. In this, the second in the Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street series, the part-time housekeeper and full-time sage of 221B will lead her colleagues in a quest for justice that will put them at odds with Scotland Yard, Irish revolutionaries, religious zealots, and even the “London Times.” Before Mrs. Hudson can bring everything to right she will need to enlist the assistance of Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and his mistress Katharine O’Shea. BARRY S. BROWN has spent most of his professional life conducting research in the areas of mental health, criminology and drug abuse. He has published two books and more than a hundred journal articles and chapters examining those issues. He now lives with his wife, Ann, in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, an ocean and a century removed from the London of Sherlock Holmes.