Hidden Fires av Jane Rubino

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<p>"<em>I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money</em>." Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in <em>The Sign of Four</em>. </p><p> </p><p>Early 1902 - On the eve of Newgate Prison''s demolition, Watson spies Holmes leaving a public sale of the prison''s miscellany in the company of a beautiful stranger and in possession of an unusual trophy:  the death mask of a woman who, more than twenty years earlier, had been executed for the murder of her three children. Holmes agrees to satisfy Watson''s curiosity about the memento by recounting the decades-old history of its subject.</p><p> </p><p>Late December, 1878. A young Sherlock Holmes is living in a modest room at Montague Street, dividing his time between the lecture halls and the laboratories,