Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Wailing Heir

By RR Thwackhurst

On a bitter December evening, Sir Landon Kittlesworth arrives at Baker Street with an impossible problem: his nephew Julian, sole heir to the family fortune, claims to be haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. The apparition appears on the mansion's iron balconies during snowfall, wailing accusations of betrayal and abandonment-and Julian is descending into madness.

Holmes and Watson find themselves drawn into the gothic world of Kittlesworth House, where wealth conceals desperation and family loyalty masks darker motives. As phantom voices echo through frozen corridors and white figures vanish into winter storms, Holmes begins to suspect that this haunting is no supernatural visitation-but a carefully orchestrated deception with stakes far higher than anyone imagined.

Some hauntings are real. Some are manufactured. But the most dangerous are those we create ourselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF64FLDP
• ISBN13: 9798242717015
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"