Sherlock Holmes

Paris, Tuesday 22nd August 1911. The very air of the city is charged with outrage. The Mona Lisa is missing from its place of honour in the Louvre. 'What audacious criminal, what mystifier, what manic collector, what insane lover, has committed this abduction?' the Paris newspapers demand. Sherlock Holmes emerges from retirement to reveal the truth of the Affaire de La Joconde, a story of incompetence, villainy, greed, and international intrigue involving an Italian house painter, American tycoon J P Morgan, and suave Argentinian con man, the Marqués de Valfierno. Follow Holmes and Watson as they track the thief from Paris to Rome, Pompeii, and finally Mona Lisa's home city, Florence. Based on, and structured around, the facts of the infamous 1911 case to allow readers to make up their own minds on the culprit(s). Weigh the evidence and decide who you think dunnit!