Publisher's Synopsis
It tells of the case of the strange disappearance of the wealthy heiress Hatty Doran. The only daughter of the multimillionaire Aloysius Doran, she has disappeared after her marriage to the aforementioned Lord St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral and belonging to the most rancid aristocracy ofEngland.
It all begins when an aristocrat in his forties, the son of a duke, contacts Holmes to help him find his wife, who disappeared on the day of theweddingat the time of thefoodBefore I had even been able to lay a hand on him.
Holmes this time does not go out to the street to smell the clues, he is content to read in the newspapers the news about the lofty boyfriend and his consort, a young womanAmericanwithout the slightest education, but the daughter of a lucky man who found a mine ofgold.
Everything indicates that the bride was kidnapped by a former lover of her husband, even the police believe it. But Holmes has a very different theory. When the aristocrat meets with him, he asks him some simple questions that seem like the preamble to a long investigation, but the client is perplexed when, when asking when he will be able to know something about the case, he hears the detective calmly say: "I have already solved it."
The story is ideal to spend an afternoon, brief, light, with mysteries not very tangled, but entertaining and all the fun that a story can be withSherlock Holmesas the protagonist.
