A. Robert Lee Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

While on a business trip to England, Ben Franklin decides to attend a new play at London's famous Drury Lane Theatre. During the performance, a heckler tumbles to his death, and Ben is drawn behind the footlights into a whirl of backstage intrigue complete with rakes, harlots, and jealous actors. Martin's.

In the second case recorded by Benjamin Franklin's young charge and assistant Nick Handy, the great Doctor Franklin is confronted with a shocking event. While attending a mummers' play at the home of a popular merchant Roddy Fairbrass on Christmas Eve 1757, their host suddenly collapses and dies. Although the bereaved family denies it, Franklin is convinced that he has witnessed a murder. Franklin had been to the Fairbrass home one time before to investigate the report of a ghost and now believes that there must be some sinister connection between the two events. Determined to uncover the truth, the intrepid inventor and statesman, accompanied by Nick, unravels a tangled plot of intrigue and scandal while matching wits with some of London's most notorious criminal minds.

Vynalézavě zkonstruovaný román autora dobře poučeného o pravidlech holmesovské legendy, jemuž ovšem právě proto nic není svaté. A tak se opět ocitáme v rušném zamlženém viktoriánském Londýně, v labyrintu podvodů a klamu, kde se znovu utkávají zmrtvýchvstalí Holmes a jeho úhlavní nepřítel ďábelský profesor Moriarty v dalším děsivém boji mezi dobrem a zlem. Svižně a zábavně napsaný příběh. Ironické dílko skutečné literární lásky.