“A marvelous evocation of Edwardian London. Night Watch provides fascinating new insights into the innermost nature of the immortal detective himself.” – Frederick Buechner, author of Secrets in the Dark

It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest's mutilated corpse has been found in a London church that is hosting a secret high-hevel interfaith meeting. Unbroken snow surrounding the holy structure suggests that the murderer remains with-in, and that he is, presumably, one of the leaders of the world's great faiths.

Now, summoned by the prime minister, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves embroiled in case with international, political, and ecclesiastical complica-tions and in need of a little assistance from a young priest named Father Brown…

Stephen Kendrick is the minister of First and Second Church , Boston , and has previously served churches in Con-necticut , Maryland , and Pennsylvania , as well as Unitarian chapels in the West Midlands of England . He has written ar-ticles for the Christian century, the Hartford Courant, and the New York Times, and is the author of Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes.