Sherlock Holmes and the Haunted Castle

By S Humphreys

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE HAUNTED CASTLE

A newly discovered Watson manuscript, edited by S Humphreys

When Lord Ronald MacInnis climbs the stairs to 221B Baker Street, he brings with him more than a case - he brings a curse.

For four hundred years, the MacInnis family of Cairn's Keep has whispered of the Weeping Seneschal: a hanged traitor whose ghost is said to walk the ancient gallery, wailing in the night, appearing to the head of the house shortly before his death. Lord Ronald's father dismissed the legend his whole life - until the night he was found frozen with terror at his own window, dead of a heart that simply stopped. Now the wailing has begun for Ronald himself, and he fears he is next.

Sherlock Holmes has no patience for ghosts. But he has a great deal of patience for fortunes, inheritances, and the remarkably consistent tendency of the supernatural to trouble only those who stand between the living and their money.

Holmes and Watson travel north to the Scottish Highlands, to a castle that guards its secrets as fiercely as its stones guard the loch below. There they find a household divided against itself: a steward whose thirty years of loyalty conceal a private grievance; a frightened housemaid who knows more than she dares to say; a charming cousin whose finances do not bear close examination; and a fortune-hungry railway company whose interest in the land runs deeper than anyone admits.

As a storm closes the causeway and cuts the castle off from the world, Holmes lays a trap of chemistry, patience, and phosphorescent gauze - because whatever weeps in that tower, he is certain of one thing: it is not the dead who mean Lord Ronald harm.

This is the seventh volume in a series of previously unpublished Watson manuscripts, discovered in a hidden compartment behind a bookcase at Baker Street and now presented to readers for the first time - a tale of inheritance, deception, and the very human cruelty that hides behind an old family curse.

Perfect for readers of classic detective fiction who love a good country-house mystery, a proper Highland gothic atmosphere, and Holmes at his most coldly, satisfyingly logical.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H89QPYQF
• ISBN13: 9798186549437
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"