The Doctor and the Demon
Posted by Steve Emecz on
One of the stories in the current Kickstarter campaign for The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume VIII.
The Doctor and the Demon
Holmes and Watson met soon after the Battle of Maiwand in 1880 with Watson still tanned from his time in the tropics yet their first canonical work that is explicitly dated is in 1887. What happened in this period – much longer than the Great Hiatus when there were apparently no cases?
This work of 1882 featuring the best-known sportsmen in the world of the time reveals all for the first time and Holmes shows his extraordinary ability to take a subject as complex as cricket and reduce it to a mathematical process with consequences so devastating and effective they have had to be redacted from the records until now.
