The Adventure of Black Drop

A gunshot leaves a dead man in an East End alley. A beautiful woman lies dead on the lawns of Windsor Castle. The only certain aspect of a beadle’s death is its precipitation by gravity. A mere bump into a gentleman sends an old man to his death amidst Piccadilly’s evening throngs. Did the gunshot echo through time and claim the three other souls or had their time simply run out? One man’s calibre matches these crimes’. A mathematician’s ingenious deviance compounds London’s smog as he surp...