Sherlock Holmes is summoned from London to Rio in 1886 to investigate the theft of a Stradivarius violin--a gift from the Emperor of Brazil to his favorite lady friend. A bestseller in Brazil, and published to wide acclaim in Europe, this brilliant literary thriller is now poised to capture the imagination of American readers.
From the internationally acclaimed author of A Samba for Sherlock, a delicious romp through the twentieth century with literature's most hapless assassin. It's the story of Dimitri Korozec, who is born with two extra index fingers, and whose schemes to eliminate all the world's tyrants are foiled by his extreme clumsiness. The tone is set with ...
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