Dale B. Martin is gespecialiseerd in het Nieuwe Testament en de Christelijke Oorsprong, met een scherpe focus op de sociale en culturele geschiedenis van de Grieks-Romeinse wereld. Zijn werk duikt in thema's zoals slavernij als metafoor voor verlossing, het lichaam binnen het vroege christendom en de interpretatie van seksualiteit in bijbelteksten. Martin analyseert hoe ideologieën de moderne bijbelwetenschap vormgeven en onderzoekt kwesties van het oude gezin, gender en ethiek binnen religieuze contexten. Zijn onderzoek belicht de kruispunten van sociale geschiedenis, religie en interpretatie in de antieke wereld.
Watson is in the vaults of his bank Cox & Co. looking for a gift given to him by his wife Mary, shortly after they met. While he is there, his eye inevitably falls upon his old despatch box and he spends the following hours looking through the adventures he shared with Sherlock Holmes. After much consideration, he chooses a group of cases, all of which had a profound effect on him and decides to publish them in this new volume.
As the country mourns the passing of Queen Victoria, Inspector Cornelius Armstrong finds himself wrestling with a series of complex investigations that threaten to overwhelm the City Police Force. After he is called away to attend the scene of a seemingly unconnected suicide, Armstrong finds that the tragedy actually leads to a breakthrough in his enquiries and the complexities of the previous few months start to unravel.