Narrated by James Langton

In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their
Strand magazines-- anticipating the detective's next adventure-- only to
find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their
hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands
in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin.

Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had "murdered" Holmes in
"The Final Problem", he resurrected him. Though the writer kept detailed
diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden
change of heart. After his death, one of his journals from the interim
period was discovered to be missing, and in the decades since, has never
been found.

Or has it?

When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent
Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, The Baker Street Irregulars, he never
imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for the holy grail of
Holmes-ophiles: the missing diary. But when the world's leading Doylean
scholar is found murdered in his hotel room, it is Harold - using wisdom
and methods gleaned from countless detective stories - who takes up the
search, both for the diary and for the killer.

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