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In Dec 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand periodicals-- anticipating the detective's next excursion-- only to find the unthinkable: his originator, Arthur Conan Doyle, possessed killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported dark-colored armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, as abruptly as Conan Doyle possessed "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem", he resurrected him. Although writer kept specific diaries of his times and work, Conan Doyle never explained this abrupt change of center. After his loss of life, one of is own journals from the interim period was discovered to be missing, and in the decades since, has never been found. Or has it? When literary researcher Harold White is inducted in to the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast contemporary society, The Baker Block Irregulars, he never imagines he's going to be thrust onto the search for the ultimate goal of Holmes-ophiles: the missing diary. However when the world's leading Doylean scholar is available murdered in his accommodation, it is Harold - using intelligence and methods gleaned from countless detective stories - who takes up the search, both for the journal as well as for the killer.
