The Sherlockian by Graham Moore Various Formats eBook

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In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating
the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed
their hero off. London spiraled into mourning - crowds sported black armbands in grief - and railed
against Conan Doyle as his assassin.

Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem," he resurrected
him. Though the writer kept detailed diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden
change of heart. After his death, one of his journals from the interim period was discovered to be missing,
and in the decades since, has never been found.

Or has it?

When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society,
The Baker Street Irregulars, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for the holy grail of
Holmes-ophiles: the missing diary. But when the world's leading Doylean scholar is found murdered in his
hotel room, it is Harold - using wisdom and methods gleaned from countless detective stories - who takes up
the search, both for the diary and for the killer.