The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Paperback

The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Geoffrey Finch is a collection of eight new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. This edition is a paperback.

Key details

• Author: Geoffrey Finch
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 344
• ISBN: 9781787059498
• Also available in hardcover

Synopsis

Set against the shifting landscape of Victorian England, these stories place Holmes amid an age of rapid progress in science, transport and medicine, alongside rising urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each case engages with 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.

Other investigations range from tracing a missing heir to confronting a haunting tied to an old army colleague of Watson’s. Across the collection, Holmes is shown as both fiercely intelligent and strongly humanitarian, despite his idiosyncrasies, solitary temperament, melancholia and addiction to cocaine.

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 fifth story, ‘The Cathedral Cat’.

Rackhams Reference : E32WF1123A