They’re captured and brought upstairs where Worth is - with a huge gun pointed at the people on the yachts. Holmes thinks the attack will come from the adjacent buildings so they investigate. When he’s arrested, the police carriage blows up and kills him before he can reveal key information about the espionage.Īs the theater troupe prepares on the yacht for their performance before the big meeting, Holmes and Watson find fake bombs in some of the instruments. Back in London, they meet with government officials and find that the traitor is Clevering, who is being blackmailed by the Germans into helping them. They go to the prison to investigate Moran and are shot at, but escape on horseback. There must be a traitor in the government of England since only they knew Holmes would be going there. Holmes and Watson investigate Worth’s home, and are shot at.

One of Moriarty’s criminal associates, Moran, escapes from prison and Holmes thinks he must be behind the terrorism. Everyone is in danger, since more dynamite was found to have been stolen recently. The theater is providing entertainment before the meeting on the rich American’s yachts. Worth, an unsavory investor in the theater, turns out to be the brother of Moriarty. They find out that she is Rosario’s child and Moriarty is her father.

Lucy asks Holmes’ assistance in finding out who her mother is - Worth is administering her trust and she doesn’t trust him with her life. He was a student of hers, and in fact raped her and she had his child. When the Prime Minister’s carriage is blown up, Holmes deduces that a foreign government wants to stop the meeting, and this can only be the work of Moriarty’s criminal enterprise - even though Moriarty himself is dead.Īt the Savoy Theater, Watson meets a violinist, Rosario, who is concerned that Moriarty is still alive. Young Johnny Rockefeller is there, and he meets with his old friend Lucy, who is the star of a play at the Savoy theater. Watson are summoned to view a corpse who was an associate of JD Rockefeller, who is in England to attend a summit meeting along with Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan concerning enhancing England’s naval fleet. The papers as she had left them.Sherlock Holmes and Dr. The switch, right where she knew it would be. Feet out.Īnd she was moving, two quick silent steps, three, and the wall. I'll be at the door anyway, and I'll scream and run like hell. The light switch was to the right of the door. In her mind's eye she saw him, the man with the dead brown eyes, playing with his knife as he sat there on her desk and whispered. The voice was back there in the darkness. Down into her sleep it had come.īehind her and to the left. She had left the little reading light on when she had gone to bed, she was sure of that, but now the room was dark. It was past midnight when Jill opened her eyes and heard the voice.

Night Whispers by Charles Veley