The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Hardcover

The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Geoffrey Finch brings together eight new stories featuring the celebrated detective. Presented in hardback, this collection is also available in paperback.

Key details

• Author: Geoffrey Finch
• Format: Hardcover
• Extent: 344 pages
• ISBN: 9781787059924
• Also available in paperback

Synopsis

Set against the shifting backdrop of Victorian England, these eight tales place Holmes amid an era marked by advances in science, transport and medicine, alongside rising urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each story draws on a different facet of that world, from helping a disgraced army veteran caught in a dangerous family conflict to recovering a stolen fossil from the Natural History Museum.

Elsewhere, Holmes is asked to trace an heir to a vast fortune, investigates the torment of an old army colleague of Watson’s, and takes on cases involving forgers, a murdered prostitute and a Russian spy. Throughout, Watson’s description of Holmes as the “best and wisest of men” is echoed in a portrait that balances ferocious intelligence with a pronounced humanitarian bias.

About the author

Geoffrey Finch is an Associate Lecturer in English Language at the Open University and has taught at universities in Africa, New Zealand and the UK. He lives in Greater London with his wife and their cat, Humphrey, who makes a guest appearance in “The Cathedral Cat”.

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