Sherlock Holmes and the Arabian Princess - Hardcover

Marvo the Magician invited the visiting Princess Fatima on stage to take part in his 'disappearing' act, but the trouble was that she never re-appeared. The Reverend Charles Samuels, her guardian, appeals to the well-known consulting detective for help and Sherlock Holmes' investigations lead him from his Baker Street rooms, via the stage of the Hyperion Music Hall, to a meeting place of ruffians in Soho. Despite his assuming a disguise Holmes is recognized by the gang and is rescued from a theatrical death by the faithful Watson. The villains are pursued to the London docks, but Colonel James Moriarty manages to elude capture...