Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey - and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the ocean to America, to the centre of a deadly web - where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay . . .


夏洛克‧福爾摩斯知道，來自美國的神祕家庭教師艾米爾斯‧克羅有著不為人知的祕密。但他萬萬沒有想到，理當已經被美國政府處以絞刑的那名惡名昭彰的殺人魔，竟然還在薩里活得好好的，而且克羅竟然跟這件事有關聯。既然沒人能告訴他答案，他只好靠自己冒險找出真相，也因此夏洛克冒著生命危險，展開了一段橫跨海峽直達美洲的旅程，在那裡生命一點都不值錢，想挖掘真相，就得付出極高的代價……