Killing Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Murder
A digitally remastered treasury of Conan Doyle's original Strand Magazine stories — restored, annotated, and completed at last.
Where did Holmes go — and who was waiting for him?
In 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls, locked in the arms of Professor Moriarty, and the world mourned. This volume gathers all the preceding stories from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in their original Strand publication order, digitally remastered from rare period sources with Sidney Paget's iconic illustrations painstakingly restored — every line, tone, and shadow recreated with fidelity to the Victorian originals, sharper and cleaner than most readers have ever seen them.
But this edition offers something no reader has seen before: "The Case of the Caspian Widow," an unpublished work set during the Great Hiatus, the three lost years between Reichenbach and Holmes's return. Here, amid the Trans-Caspian railway and the shadows of Persia and Tibet, Holmes crosses paths once more with Irene Adler — now travelling under the name Adrienne — in a story that finally answers where Holmes went, and who was waiting for him.
Complete with scholarly annotations by the internationally acclaimed Sherlockian, James Biss, and the same meticulous restoration behind the acclaimed Finding Sherlock Holmes series, this is both a tribute to Doyle's original Memoirs and a new chapter in the Holmes canon. Its companion volume, The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, gathers the earlier Strand cases.
For collectors, Sherlockians, and anyone who has ever wondered what really happened during the missing years.