{"product_id":"sherlock-holmes-the-mecca-affair","title":"Sherlock Holmes: The Mecca Affair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Death is a matter of paperwork.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMecca, 1892. Cholera has come up from Jeddah with the pilgrims, and every morning new names are posted at the gate of the Sharif’s palace. Shaykh Abdullah, a teacher of grammar in the Sacred Mosque, has learnt to read the register of the dead without flinching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he notices a Persian pilgrim who walks the wrong way round the Ka’ba: a man who knows nothing a Muslim knows, and everything about everyone else. He is an Englishman, and the world believes he died at the foot of a Swiss waterfall the year before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree men have died of cholera in three houses where no one else fell sick. Bound by duty to the city he loves, the Shaykh is drawn into a hunt that runs from the Sacred Mosque to the Jeddah road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFound among the Shaykh’s papers, this is the account of what Sherlock Holmes was really doing in the years he was thought dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imagine Nation","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68422364922160,"sku":"9781763990661","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781763990661.jpg?v=1794471503","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/sherlock-holmes-the-mecca-affair","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}