Kidnapped and taken to China, Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks like a spider’s web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before . . .
Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again.


少年偵探夏洛克‧福爾摩斯遭到了綁架！他被帶到中國，並且捲入一場冒險中。在上海的不同地區，竟有三個男人遭同一種毒蛇咬傷。是誰想置他們於死地？又是為了什麼？答案似乎藏在一個蜘蛛網狀的圖表訊息中。但是，在解決這道謎題後，似乎迎來了更加棘手的問題：這一連串的事件，究竟和摧毀一艘美國軍艦的陰謀有何關聯？夏洛克必須拿出勇氣來面對前所未有的恐怖冒險……
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