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At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holme's enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities and seems unrelated to the growing tensions in the area among Jew, Moslem, and Christian. Still, no one is too pleases at Holme's insistence on reconstructing the most resent homicide in the desert gully where it occured. What they unexpectedly uncover will lead Russell and Holmes through an exotic gauntlet of labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels, cliff-hung monasteries - and into nortal danger. In a jewellike city of Jerusalem, they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for power could reduce the city's most anicent and sacred place to rubble and ignite a tinderbox of hostilities just waiting to spark...