Description of the book:
True story: One hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries – became a consultant to Scotland Yard and chased a killer through the streets of Victorian London. Another true story: in 2004, the world's leading expert on Sherlock Holmes announced that he had found the lost diary of Conan Doyle, which had mysteriously disappeared after the author's death. Before the scholar publicly revealed his diaries, he was found murdered, strangled with his own shoelaces. The room had been ransacked. The newspaper was nowhere to be found. Sherlock Holmes devotees around the world began searching for the missing diary – and their friend's killer.
The Sherlockian is a fictionalized retelling of these two stories, one set in 1900, the other today. This is a detective novel not about Sherlock Holmes, but about Sherlockians. The novel tells the story of Harold White, a young Sherlockian obsessive who has read all the great detective novels cover to cover, and twice. But despite knowing a million gory stories, Hiccup has never seen a real corpse before in his life. Until he came face to face with the murdered corpse of Alex Cale, the world's most famous Doylean historian, who was set to go public with his discovery of Doyle's missing journals. Harold must now use all his expertise in fictional crimes to solve a real crime.
Meanwhile, the novel tells a second story, one contained in the diary of Arthur Conan Doyle himself. After an assassination attempt, Conan Doyle searches for a killer who appears to be taunting him with messages. After killing off the Sherlock Holmes character eight years earlier, but finding the public cold towards his new creations, Conan Doyle sets out to prove himself the best at his own fictional detective and solve a real-life mystery himself. But Arthur begins to discover that in the face of real evil, the world doesn't need Arthur Conan Doyle – the world needs Sherlock Holmes. (from Graham Moore's blog, www.thesherlockian.com)
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