Sherlock Holmes and the Rascal Lascar
(2026)(Book 63 in the New Sherlock Holmes Mystery series)
A novel by Craig Stephen Copland
London, 1889. A desperate young woman arrives at 221B Baker Street with a terrifying tale. Someone is trying to murder her guardian, the wealthy widow Mrs. Catherine Ashworth. Miss Amara Kapoor has evidence of three attempts on the woman's life, and she fears she'll be blamed as the heir to Mrs. Ashworth's fortune.
But Sherlock Holmes senses something deeper in this case. Miss Kapoor's late father was a Lascar seaman who ran the Bar of Gold opium den—the very rascal and establishment Holmes exposed in a previous investigation. After the raid, Ravi Kapoor lost everything and died in prison, swearing his daughter would avenge him.
Now Holmes must untangle a web of deception where nothing is as it seems. Is Amara orchestrating the murder attempts herself? Is someone else fulfilling her father's dying oath? And when attempts are made on Holmes's own life, he realizes two deadly plots are converging.
In a game where vengeance and justice blur and every party may be lying, Holmes faces a dangerous and deceitful case. His life is threatened, but so is the life of his wayward client.
The Rascal Lascar is an untold case refered to in The Man with the Twisted Lip. Itweaves an intricate tale of revenge, redemption, and the weight of consequences in Victorian London.
Pre-order now to get the discount and bonus books.
Genre: Historical Mystery
But Sherlock Holmes senses something deeper in this case. Miss Kapoor's late father was a Lascar seaman who ran the Bar of Gold opium den—the very rascal and establishment Holmes exposed in a previous investigation. After the raid, Ravi Kapoor lost everything and died in prison, swearing his daughter would avenge him.
Now Holmes must untangle a web of deception where nothing is as it seems. Is Amara orchestrating the murder attempts herself? Is someone else fulfilling her father's dying oath? And when attempts are made on Holmes's own life, he realizes two deadly plots are converging.
In a game where vengeance and justice blur and every party may be lying, Holmes faces a dangerous and deceitful case. His life is threatened, but so is the life of his wayward client.
The Rascal Lascar is an untold case refered to in The Man with the Twisted Lip. Itweaves an intricate tale of revenge, redemption, and the weight of consequences in Victorian London.
Pre-order now to get the discount and bonus books.
Genre: Historical Mystery