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The disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth, Leonard Goldberg

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The disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth

1084632729

Leonard Goldberg

A daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery

"Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale. Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England's military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security. The police are frantic to find Ainsworth before the Germans can use him to decode all of England's undeciphered messages. Ainsworth must be found at all costs and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him. "--PublisherDr. Alexander Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is Alistair Ainsworth, a high-ranking cryptographer who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England's military strategies for the Great War. Ainsworth must be found at all costs-- and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him. -- adapted from jacket

The unannounced visitor -- The advertisement -- Dr. Verner's office -- The chase -- The sister -- The trail -- Paddington Station -- The Admiralty Club -- Blood smears -- The British Museum -- Covent garden -- The Baker Street irregulars -- St. John's wood -- The secret companion -- A coded message -- Waterloo Station -- Lady Jane -- They mysterious gentleman -- The unexpected death -- Westminster Abbey -- A strange meeting -- Hyde Park -- Exodus -- The deciphering -- A traitor -- The trap -- Alistair Ainsworth