Sherlock Holmes - Tangled Skeins: Stories from the Notebooks of Dr. John H. Watson

David Marcum

May 2015 · Andrews UK Limited

About this ebook

Sherlock Holmes's investigations were not always the neat and self-contained stories that were presented for publication. As Watson writes in his "Foreword": Holmes's cases overlapped one another considerably, often with the next beginning while the current was still in motion. Some moved linearly from start to finish without interruption, while others stretched, a piece here and a piece there, across weeks, months, or even years and decades. There are cases from the past that resonated into the present, or times when Holmes's path was detoured from the middle of one case into a completely different matter without warning. A few never reached any conclusion at all. Sometimes ... Holmes would find himself surrounded by the returning ripples of a matter that he had believed to be concluded years earlier, with the guilty miscreant supposedly far behind him.Watson chose the stories in this collection to represent this tangled skein. Join us as we ascend the seventeen steps to the sitting room at 221b Baker Street, discovering cases that range from Holmes's earliest days in practice to his activities during his supposed retirement on the South Downs of Sussex. The game is afoot!

About the author

David Marcum is the author of the bestselling Papers of Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1 and 2 which have been translated into several languages including Russian. His debut Holmes novel, A Quantity of Debt also has received rave reviews. He is also the editor of the controversial Hewitt adaptations Sherlock Holmes on Montague Street volumes 1-3.