The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a thrilling mystery set in the Victorian era, following the baffling vanishing of a noblewoman and the desperate quest by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to find her. After being contacted by Lady Frances' worried governess about five weeks of silence, Holmes begins to unravel a complicated situation marked with peril, dishonesty, and the seedy side of human nature. The case quickly takes them from Switzerland into a dangerous plot involving a former maid, a suspicious couple pretending to be royalty, and a race against time to save Lady Frances from the clutches of her tormentors; their investigation culminates in an intense rescue and an uncovering of deception and villainy.