Buddy aime bien raconter des histoires. Pourtant, cette fois, Buddy n'invente rien : il a vu ses voisins tuer un homme, et devient alors un témoin gênant... Par un grand maître du suspense, auteur de Fenêtre sur cour, La Sirène du Mississipi et La Mariée était en noir.
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.