Sherlock Holmes and The Baron of Brede Place – Book Two in the series Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati by Daniel D. Victor

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They called her ﾓLady Stewartﾔ when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her ﾓMiss Cora ﾓwhen she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called herself ﾓMrs. Craneﾔ when she asked Sherlock Holmes to locate her common-law husband, writer Stephen Crane, whoﾒd gone missing in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. In their attempt to fulfil the ladyﾒs request, Holmes and Watson encounter a world of celebrity authors, terrorist bombings, and haunted manor houses. But it is only when Stephen Crane falls victim to a notorious blackmailer that the master detective and his partner find themselves face-to-face with cold-blooded murder. Under darkened skies, a solitary apparition stood brightly illuminated on the shipﾒs gloomy deck. Or so it seemed. Cloaked in a long white raincoatﾗthe same gleaming duster heﾒd worn in the face of Spanish gunfire at San Juan HeightsﾗStephen Crane looked for all the world like the ghost so many people thought heﾒd already become.