Description
Rain on the window, a lamp with a green shade, a cup of tea going cold because the plot has just turned. Somewhere in the second chapter a hansom cab rattles through London fog and a violin squeals from an upstairs room on Baker Street. Readers who know that feeling will recognize this little book at once. It belongs to evenings when the world shrinks to a chair, a blanket and a case that stubbornly refuses to be solved until well past midnight.
Imagine it resting on a bookshelf between a battered set of Conan Doyle paperbacks and a magnifying glass picked up at a flea market in Saint-Ouen. It makes a clever gift for a mystery book club host, a retiring English teacher, or the friend who corrects everyone’s deductions during television detective dramas. Elementary, really: anyone who adores a good puzzle will want it within reach, perhaps holding the spare key to the bookcase or a ticket stub from a theatre production.
A closer look
- Shaped as a closed volume devoted to Sherlock Holmes
- Close to 1.75″ x 2″ x 1.5″, a true pocket edition
- A Rochard creation
- Fine porcelain, painted entirely by hand in Limoges
Slip it into a parcel with a new detective novel and a tin of strong black tea for the perfect rainy-day gift. Collectors of literary porcelain will enjoy shelving it among other tiny volumes, building a miniature library where the great detective holds the place of honor on the top row.
