The game is newly afoot in ‘The Sherlockian’

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In 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle writes what he thinks will be his last Sherlock Holmes story, killing off the iconic character at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Several years later, Conan Doyle receives a crude and anonymously sent letter bomb, which impels him to investigate a real mystery, with help from his friend Bram Stoker and his own literary creation to guide him. The details of his investigation are dutifully recorded in his journal, which later disappears.

In 2010, Harold White has just been inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars, an elite literary club devoted to Holmesian pursuits, when the world’s leading Conan Doyle scholar claims to have found the missing journal.

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