But when the world’s leading Doylean scholar is found murdered in his hotel room, it is Harold-using wisdom and methods gleaned from countless detective stories-who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.Įditorial Reviews: Review Moore spins engaging parallel detective stories.―Entertainment WeeklyThrilling…a ripping good story that’s packed with loads of Doyle and Holmes trivia.―USA Today”It must be said of Graham Moore that he has his methods. Or has it? When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, The Baker Street Irregulars, he never imagines he’s about to be thrust onto the hunt for the holy grail of Holmes-ophiles: the missing diary. After his death, one of his journals from the interim period was discovered to be missing, and in the decades since, has never been found…. Though the writer kept detailed diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden change of heart. Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had “murdered” Holmes in “The Final Problem,” he resurrected him. London spiraled into mourning-crowds sported black armbands in grief-and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Hurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, The Sherlockian weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but “elementary.” In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective’s next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off.

The Sherlockian by Graham Moore