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Description of  Cry of the Innocents (Sherlock Holmes)

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Cavan Scott. A mysterious Catholic priest arrives at 221B Baker Street, only to utter the words il corpe before dropping dead. Though the man s death is attributed to cholera, when news of a similar case in Bristol reaches Holmes, he becomes convinced that the priests have been poisoned. He and Watson learn that the men were on a mission from the Vatican to investigate a miracle it is said that the body of an eighteenth-century philanthropist and slave trader Edwyn Warwick has not decomposed. But should the Pope sanctify a man who made his fortune through slavery? And when Warwick s body is stolen, it becomes clear that the priests mission has attracted the attention of a deadly conspiracy..."