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Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Kensington Automaton
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What are these new toys for the children of Kensington Gardens?-clockwork dolls from Paris that walk, turn, and gesture with uncanny precision. But something is terribly wrong. Young Clara Fairchild begins reciting military coordinates she couldn't possibly know. Other children follow, speaking in mechanical voices, repeating cryptographic sequences and geographical data that chill their parents to the bone.
When Sherlock Holmes investigates, he discovers that all the affected children belong to families connected to Britain's military intelligence-and that the beautiful automatons harbor secrets within their brass gears and pin-studded cylinders. Someone has found a way to encode information into mechanical patterns and imprint them upon young minds. But who created these devices, and for what sinister purpose? Holmes and Watson must race to understand how innocence itself has been weaponized,
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