Lyndsay Faye’s best Holmes tales, including two new works, are brought together in The Whole Art of Detection, a stunning collection that spans Holmes’s career, from self-taught young upstart to publicly lauded detective, both before and after his faked death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894.
In “The Lowther Park Mystery,” the unsociable Holmes is forced to attend a garden party at the request of his politician brother and improvises a bit of theater to foil a conspiracy against the government. “The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel” brings Holmes’s attention to the baffling murder of a jewel thief in the middle of an underground railway passage.
With Holmes and Watson encountering all manner of ungrateful relatives, phony psychologists, wronged wives, plaid-garbed villains, and even a peculiar species of deadly red leech, The Whole Art of Detection is a must-read for Sherlockians and any fan of historical crime fiction with a modern sensibility.
PART I: BEFORE BAKER STREET
The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness
The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness
The Adventure of the Magical Menagerie
The Adventure of the Vintner's Codex
PART II: THE EARLY YEARS
PART II: THE EARLY YEARS
The Adventure of the Honest Wife
The Adventure of the Beggar's Feast
Memoranda upon the Gaskell Blackmailing Dilemma
The Lowther Park Mystery
PART III: THE RETURN
PART III: THE RETURN
An Empty House
The Adventure of the Memento Mori
Notes Regarding the Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore
The Adventure of the Willow Basket
PART IV: THE LATER YEARS
PART IV: THE LATER YEARS
The Adventure of the Lightless Maiden
The Adventure of the Thamas Tunnel
The Adventure of the Mad Baritone
Notes upon the Diadem Club Affair
Title: The Whole Art of Detection
Author: Lyndsay Faye
Year: 2017
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Purchase: Amazon (U.S.) | Amazon (UK)
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