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Year of publication: 1974 Genre: Mystery thriller Type of investigator: Professional Series detective: Sherlock Holmes No. in series: 1 Setting & time: London, UK and Vienna, Austria; 1891. This is one of the numerous attempts to continue the saga of Sherlock Holmes from where Arthur Conan Doyle left off, although in this case the story actually happens right in the middle of the Holmes canon and is offered as an alternative account to what happened when Holmes disappeared in “The Final Problem” ( The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ). Two subsequent novels in the series fill in some more of what Holmes is supposed to have been up to during his absence, up to Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Empty House” ( The Return of Sherlock Holmes ). Much like three of the four Holmes novels written by Doyle, the book is divided into two parts, but unlike them the story is told sequentially and has Holmes in both parts. In part 1, Watson, who is the narrator, finds his old friend in a state of p...