SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS MURDERS

Seeking a holiday gift for their landlady, Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes takes Dr. John Watson to Whiteley’s, where screams and blood alert them to a startling tableau: A man is dangling from the upper branches of the half-decorated Christmas tree adorning the emporium’s main floor. Inspector Darke, the Metropolitan Police officer called to the scene by officious owner William Whiteley, pronounces Albert Robinson’s death accidental even before his body has been taken down and identified, but Holmes quietly corrects him: The carotid artery of Whiteley’s jack-of-all-trades has been cut. The recip

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