Sherlock Holmes And The Disappearing Prince — Edmund Hastie

The Crown Prince of Japan disappears without trace from his Oxbridge college rooms. Relatives of an heiress meet, one by one, with suspicious and grisly deaths. The thief of confidential battleship plans must be identified and located before the documents are leaked to the German military. And what nefarious activity links a cabman charging extortionate fares with a musically-minded butler? Narrated with wry affection by the long-suffering Dr Watson, each problem in this collection of four short stories showcases Holmes' well-honed skills of ingenious analysis and consequential deduction to perfection...