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Anywhere he goes it’s clear he’s one of the first celebrities, as ordinary folks talk to him about Holmes as though he were a real person.

The other thread is set in Victoria’s London, and features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who, sick to death of Holmes, is instead trying to write “realistic” fiction after killing Holmes off.Īs Doyle makes his way around the streets of London he finds himself both reviled for killing off Holmes, and revered for creating him in the first place. One plot thread is set in the present, and focuses on Harold, the newest member of the Baker Street Irregulars. While Laurie King’s books are set firmly in the past, Moore instead alternates chapters. While Laurie King’s Mary Russell books focus on a young girl meeting Holmes as an old man, this novel focuses on a young Sherlockian in the present who is on the lookout for the Holy Grail of any Sherlockian: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s missing diary. This was a blast of a read, one that can be enjoyed by the non Sherlock Holmes fan as much as the devotee.