About this book

Violet Hunter is a governess who gets the most peculiar job offer from Jephro Rucastle. The salary is appealing, but it comes with strange requests such as cutting her hair short. She grows suspicious of such an odd proposition, and asks Sherlock Holmes for his advice. Should she take the job at the Copper Beeches estate? Isn’t it too good to be true? Or just… too perplexing? Follow Sherlock Holmes into yet another thrilling mystery! Can you understand the Ruecastles’ motives? Beware, because awful things sometimes hide behind a simple job offer…