Singular, capital, wonderfully enjoyable, this is the biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories published since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime. Almost all the stories are specially written for the collection and the cases are presented in the order in which Holmes solved them.

The result is a life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories which identities the gaps in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in their correct sequence - plus there is an invaluable, complete Holmes chronology.

Contents:

• Introduction: The Life and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Mike Ashley Part I: The Early Years
  • "The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity" by Derek Wilson
  • "The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" by Peter Tremayne
  Part II: The 1880s
  • "The Case of the Incumbent Invalid" by Claire Griffen
  • "The Adventure of Vittoria, the Circus Belle" by Edward D. Hoch
  • "The Darlington Substitution Scandal" by David Stuart Davies
  • "The Adventure of the Suspect Servant" by Barbara Roden
  • "The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society" by John Gregory Betancourt
  • "The Adventure of the Silver Buckle" by Denis O. Smith
  • "The Case of the Sporting Squire" by Guy N. Smith
  • "The Vanishing of the Atkinsons" by Eric Brown
  • "The Adventure of the Fallen Star" by Simon Clark
  Part III: The 1890s
  • "The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger" by Michael Moorcock
  • "The Mystery of the Addleton Curse" by Barrie Roberts
  • "The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman" by Robert Weinberg and Lois H. Gresh
  • "The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor" by Stephen Baxter
  • "The Adventure of the Touch of God" by Peter Crowther
  • "The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter" by Basil Copper
  • "The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler" by H. R. F. Keating
  • "The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" by David Langford
  • "The Adventure of the Grace Chalice" by Roger Johnson
  • "The Adventure of the Faithful Retainer" by Amy Myers
  Part IV: The Final Years
  • "The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" by Martin Edwards
  • "The Legacy of Rachel Howells" by Michael Doyle
  • "The Adventure of the Bulgarian Diplomat" by Zakaria Erzinçlioglu
  • "The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
  • "The Case of the Last Battle" by L. B. Greenwood
  Appendix I: A Complete Chronology of Sherlock Holmes’ cases
  Appendix II: The Tales of Sherlock Holmes