Adventure of the Bermondsey Chiller

New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

von Ankur Barua

244 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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A locked timber office above the ice. A silent death without a wound. An invisible poison scented with summer meadows.When Sir Archibald Thorpe, President of the Board of Trade's Commercial Maritime Committee, bursts into 221B Baker Street on a fog-choked November evening, he brings news of a catastrophe that threatens to paralyze the British Empire's food supply. Percival Lowman, chief technical overseer of the Grand Union Cold Storage Syndicate, sits dead at his desk inside a hermetically sealed, cork-lined office suspended high above the frozen meat vaults of Bermondsey. The heavy door was latched from within, the barred observation port was intact, and no weapons or spilled phials are found.Scotland Yard swiftly writes off the tragedy as an ordinary industrial misadventure caused by pooled cellar gases. Yet during the post-mortem, Dr. John H. Watson discovers contradictory medical signs that defy standard toxicology: extensive capillary destruction throughout the cerebral tissues, blood that completely refuses to clot hours after death, and a faint, haunting fragrance of newly cut hay lingering upon the trachea.As trade syndicates issue high-stakes ultimatums to Whitehall and an innocent patent courier collapses on Holborn Viaduct under broad daylight, Sherlock Holmes follows the chemical trail. From the private art salons of Mayfair to a shuttered workshop in the alleys of Clerkenwell, Holmes uncovers a conspiracy of corporate manslaughter and patent extortion. A revolutionary non-flammable cooling solvent, developed to replace hazardous ammonia, conceals a lethal flaw: when warmed by ordinary desk lamps, its vapors undergo pyrolytic decomposition into an invisible respiratory weapon.With time running out before the lethal compound is smuggled out of London, Holmes and Watson must race to the midnight freight sidings of St. Pancras to confront a desperate adversary before corporate greed poisons the heart of the metropolis.

Faithfully narrated by Dr. John H. Watson, Adventure of the Bermondsey Chiller is an authentic, meticulously researched historical mystery that pairs forensic pathology and Victorian industrial espionage with the classic deductive brilliance of Sherlock Holmes.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174314863
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Independently published