New York: Carroll & Graf, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, a long untold Holmesian adventure, hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box. When a woman who had asked for Holmes' help in clearing her husband's name is found dead in a London rooming house - supposedly by suicide, but actually murdered - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a perilous search for the killer that leads them from England to Egypt, India, and Singapore. An uncommon advance issue. 316 pp.