Every year, young Mary Morstan, whose father, an officer in the Indian army, has long since disappeared, receives a pearl by post. The day a letter sets a mysterious appointment for her, she asks the famous Sherlock Holmes to accompany her...
However, while the good Dr. Watson is won over by the young girl's charm, we plunge into one of the darkest enigmas that have been offered to the detective's sagacity. The India of the Maharajas, the Agra Fort surrounded by the rebellious Sepoys, the penal colony of the Andaman Islands are the setting for the extraordinary adventure that Holmes will reconstruct, and which will find its conclusion in the fog of the Thames...
One of the most famous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published for the first time in 1889.