Liz and Jonathan Chambers are in trouble. They can't sell their old house. Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going to be OK. But soon Marcus finds himself involved with Liz in a way he'd never intended. With Liz lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run the Silchester Tutorial College alone. Neither of them have time to notice that teenage Alice is developing a desperate passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone seems to be entangled with everyone else, in the most awkward possible way. And as events close in on him, Marcus begins to realise that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home.
Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to co...
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