Elementary: The Ghost Line

by Adam Christopher · 2015 · 320 pages

Book 1 of the Elementary series

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Summons to a bullet-riddled body in a Hell's Kitchen apartment marks the start of a new case for consulting detectives Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson. The victim is a subway train driver with a hidden stash of money and a strange Colombian connection, but why would someone kill him and leave a fortune behind?

The search for the truth will lead the sleuths deep into the hidden underground tunnels beneath New York City, where answers—and more bodies—may well await them...

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Genre
mysterycrimedetective
Setting
2010s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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