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Sherlock Holmes is dead--or so most of the world believes. His fatal plunge within the Reichenbach Falls as he struggled along with his archenemy, Moriarty, has been widely reported. But Holmes has escaped and is alive. In his immediate circle, only Holmes's brother, the lethargic genius Mycroft, understands of his success. Even Dr. Watson believes that the great detective is inactive. Among his enemies, Sebastian Moran, Moriarty's key henchman, understands of Holmes's possible get away and waits because of their inevitable conference. From 1891 to 1894, Holmes wanders through Asia. He's together, without Watson, without Scotland Garden, armed only along with his physical strength and stamina and his revered cool logic and rationality. The journeys recounted in The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes range from Lhasa to Katmandu, from the East Indies to the deserts of Rajasthan. In Tibet and throughout the Orient, Holmes is swept up in the diplomatic machinations of English imperialism that Rudyard Kipling dubbed "the fantastic Game." He confronts the tsarist agent Dorjiloff, the great art thief Anton Furer, and the strange Captain Fantôme. And here, written in Holmes's own words, is the bill of "The Big Rat of Sumatra," that as yet he so famously thought the globe unprepared. For Holmes's supporters across the world, the reports in The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes fill in an enigmatic difference, the cause of much speculation in the great detective's career.
