{"product_id":"9781804241479","title":"Dark Arts, Dark Acts: The Redacted Sherlock Holmes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has taken over eighty years, but at long last the British government's embargo on reporting this slice of diplomatic history has been lifted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was in November 1940, that a senior minister at the British Foreign Office in blacked-out London commissioned Holmes and Watson to go to Berlin negotiate a prisoner of war swap with the German high-command.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the price demanded by Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Göbbels, for any prisoner release? That the two work with the Berlin police to capture a serial killer who is stalking the city's railway network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut is Holmes being entirely honest with Watson about why the Foreign Office wants the pair to conduct an investigation which can only help the Nozi war-effort? And what else might Holmes's investigation of the German railway network uncover? And how can the United States be persuaded to join the war on the British side?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn account of real events in London, Berlin, and Moscow in the years 1940 and 1941 which still shape the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the reader may feel hand of both Mycroft Holmes and Nicolo Machiavelli behind the statecraft on display. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MX Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46383020703985,"sku":"9781804241479","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781804241479_p0.jpg?v=1765302478","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781804241479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}