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When a once-healthy infant begins to waste away without any apparent medical cause, a young mother turns in desperation to Sherlock Holmes.
Doctors are baffled. The child shows no sign of disease, infection, or hereditary weakness. The household appears orderly and respectable. And yet, day by day, the baby grows thinner, weaker, and closer to death. With conventional medicine exhausted, Holmes is asked to investigate what may be the most delicate mystery he has ever faced.
Accompanied by Dr. Watson, Holmes enters a quiet London home where devotion, routine, and propriety conceal a devastating truth. Through minute observation—of feeding schedules, nursery habits, clothing, and household rhythms—he uncovers a subtle pattern of neglect born not of cruelty, but of fear, ignorance, and emotional withdrawal.
As the case unfolds, Holmes must confront the limits of logic when applied to human vulnerability, and the tragic consequences of unexamined assumptions about motherhood, duty, and care.
The Case of the Failure to Thrive is a haunting and compassionate Sherlock Holmes story that replaces violence and villainy with psychological insight and moral urgency. Blending clinical precision with deep empathy, it reveals how the smallest omissions can become the gravest dangers—and how reason, properly applied, can still save a life.
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