"Raw panic seemed to overcome Holmes' expression. I could only imagine that he suddenly foresaw the inexorable conclusion as vividly as any of his past deductions. We were about to face our own deaths!" A youthful Sherlock Holmes is recuperating from the ordeal destined to be chronicled by Dr. Watson as A Study in Scarlet. Holmes' next adventure, the lost adventure, starts mundanely enough with the theft of a typewriter but for one outr??? fact: The death of the beautiful supplicant's manservant. More thefts and purloined ...
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"Raw panic seemed to overcome Holmes' expression. I could only imagine that he suddenly foresaw the inexorable conclusion as vividly as any of his past deductions. We were about to face our own deaths!" A youthful Sherlock Holmes is recuperating from the ordeal destined to be chronicled by Dr. Watson as A Study in Scarlet. Holmes' next adventure, the lost adventure, starts mundanely enough with the theft of a typewriter but for one outr??? fact: The death of the beautiful supplicant's manservant. More thefts and purloined documents carry Holmes and Watson across Europe on the Orient Express in search of the truth. A devilishly clever cipher and a murdered sailor lead Holmes to a horrifying conclusion. Travel with the great detective and Dr. Watson from the steaming jungles of the Sundra Strait to long forgotten caverns beneath London to face a new arch villain, Lofcadio Hearseborne III, and the greatest terror of their lives.
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This book is the first Sherlockian publication I know of by the author. It tells the story of Sherlock Holmes and the giant rats of Sumatra
This story includes four threads; typewriters are being stolen in London, there have been a series of documents taken from the files of Charles Darwin, children are disappearing in the dock areas of London and the test results of an obscure Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel, have disappeared. The events that lead to Holmes? involvement in each of these separate lines area bit complex, even contrived, but they do help move the story forward.
Watson falls in love. Holmes and Watson take a short vacation to the Continent, which is cut off suddenly. They visit Charles Darwin at his request and then they head out for an area near Sumatra by way of the Andaman Islands..
Eventually, they return to London and confront the evil-doer responsible for most of the events. The resolution of the entire situation is complicated and a bit obscure. Several lines are not quite resolved but I do really admire the foremother of a truly great bad girl who turns up in the mix.
In summary, the story is interesting and moves right a long. There are holes in the logic and some of the events are difficult to justify. The editing is well done, with few errors in usage or spelling. I question several of the basic assumptions, but that is a personal thing. The plot holds together, even if it is a bit precarious and the historical characters are very well presented.
