A Doyle mystery wrapped in a Wodehouse comedy —
and the origin story of the most unflappable manservant in English literature.
When a coded telegram arrives at the Foreign Office — apparently requesting that raisin biscuits be dispatched to a Brigadier in Suffolk — it is filed under miscellany and promptly forgotten. It takes Sherlock Holmes approximately four minutes to recognise it as the most significant communication to cross his desk in a year.
So begins an improbable week in the Suffolk countryside, where Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves guests at Wooster Hall — a household presided over by a Brigadier whose primary intelligence concern is a large black dog, twins conducting field research of uncertain scientific value, a gardener whose twenty-year grievance about a disputed boundary has been cultivated with the same dedication he brings to his roses, and a twelve-year-old boy named Bertie who faces everything, including a colonial conspiracy, with the serene goodwill of someone who has genuinely never considered that things might not work out.
There is also a young manservant named Reggie, who says very little, notices everything, and appears to have the situation entirely in hand.
The Adventure of the Colonial Victory is the story of a week that changed nothing — except, very quietly, everything.
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