Patients are dying in the hospital ward. Surely this isn't news. But to Mrs. Hudson, ill and dizzy from medication, the deaths-one patient, then another, and all of them women!-seem sinisterly connected. Even if she's the only person who sees the connection. Mary Watson knows just how she feels, though her focus is less on sick women than on missing boys-the skinny, grubby, poor ones that nobody wanted in the first place. Sherlock Holmes isn't interested...