The Seventh Shot

Studying the history of a murder that once shocked America, a modern American writer tried to look at it through the eyes of Sherlock Holmes and created an exciting political detective story. The novel—an imitation by a contemporary American writer—blends fiction with reality: an old Sherlock Holmes, retired from his work, goes overseas to investigate the murder of David Graham Phillips, whom Theodore Roosevelt called the “dirt-scraper” for his sensational exposés that cost more than one politician their career. The well-known journalist and writer David Graham Phillips was killed by the hand of a madman who committed suicide at the scene. The police closed the case, but the victim’s sister is convinced that he was the victim of a political conspiracy, and she turns to Sherlock Holmes for help.