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The disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth [text (large print)] / Leonard Goldberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery ; 3Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 424 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781643583914
  • 1643583913
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street. Dr. Alexander Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to obtain vital information about England's military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security. The police are frantic to find Ainsworth before the Germans can use him to decode all of England's undeciphered messages. Ainsworth must be found at all costs and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Home Service Large Print Large Print GOLD Available T00808331
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale.

Regular print version published by: St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street. Dr. Alexander Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to obtain vital information about England's military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security. The police are frantic to find Ainsworth before the Germans can use him to decode all of England's undeciphered messages. Ainsworth must be found at all costs and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him.

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