Dale B. Martin sa špecializuje na Nový zákon a rané kresťanstvo, so zameraním na sociálnu a kultúrnu históriu helenistického a rímskeho sveta. Jeho práce sa ponára do tém, ako je otroctvo ako metafora spásy, telo v ranom kresťanstve a interpretácia sexuality v biblických textoch. Martin analyzuje, ako ideológie ovplyvňujú moderné biblické bádanie, a skúma otázky týkajúce sa starovekej rodiny, genderu a etiky v rámci náboženského kontextu. Jeho výskum osvetľuje prieniky medzi sociálnou históriou, náboženstvom a interpretáciou v antickom svete.
Watson is in the vaults of his bank Cox & Co. looking for a gift given to him by his wife Mary, shortly after they met. While he is there, his eye inevitably falls upon his old despatch box and he spends the following hours looking through the adventures he shared with Sherlock Holmes. After much consideration, he chooses a group of cases, all of which had a profound effect on him and decides to publish them in this new volume.
As the country mourns the passing of Queen Victoria, Inspector Cornelius Armstrong finds himself wrestling with a series of complex investigations that threaten to overwhelm the City Police Force. After he is called away to attend the scene of a seemingly unconnected suicide, Armstrong finds that the tragedy actually leads to a breakthrough in his enquiries and the complexities of the previous few months start to unravel.