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