The Fifth Heart. Part 1
10 hrs. 55 min.
Description
In 1885, Clover Adams, the wife of historian Henry Adams, took her own life under suspicious circumstances—and the family of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, from whose loins two U.S. presidents emerged, simply couldn’t bury this grim secret. Eight years later, Henry James and Sherlock Holmes begin investigating Clover’s death.
The great detective, having narrowly avoided death at the edge of Reichenbach Gorge, sets off—either on pilgrimage or self-imposed exile—across the ocean, because the deductive method led him to a merciless conclusion: Holmes himself is no more than a literary character.
But if that’s true, what is his companion supposed to consider himself— a respectable writer and playwright, a full-fledged citizen of two worlds, the American and the British? And if James happened to get involved with a dangerous madman, then by what right hasn’t Professor Moriarty already given him the final diagnosis?
The great detective, having narrowly avoided death at the edge of Reichenbach Gorge, sets off—either on pilgrimage or self-imposed exile—across the ocean, because the deductive method led him to a merciless conclusion: Holmes himself is no more than a literary character.
But if that’s true, what is his companion supposed to consider himself— a respectable writer and playwright, a full-fledged citizen of two worlds, the American and the British? And if James happened to get involved with a dangerous madman, then by what right hasn’t Professor Moriarty already given him the final diagnosis?
