The Man Who was Twisted but Hip: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Sherlock Holmes is the world’s best known detective. Over 100 million copies of the original Sherlock Holmes stories have been sold since they were first released in the late Victorian period. Today there are over 3000 Sherlock Holmes Societies scattered all over the world and devoted to the adventures of Holmes and Watson. Readers, it can be deduced, can never get enough of Sherlock Holmes.

Craig Stephen Copland is a dedicated Sherlockian whose mission is to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery that is related to and inspired by each of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. They are all set in the same time period and take place in London and in a few other more exotic locations. The same much-loved characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson appear in every story. Together, along with heroes and heroines they take on the forces of evil and using the science of deduction bring dastardly criminals to justice.

The Man Who Was Twisted But Hip - It is 1897 and France is torn apart by The Dreyfus Affair.
Westminster needs help from Sherlock Holmes to make sure that the evil tide of anti-Semitism that has engulfed France will not spread. A young officer in the Foreign Office suddenly resigns from his post and enters the theater. His wife calls for help from Sherlock Holmes.
The evil professor is up to something, and it could have terrible consequences for the young couple and all of Europe. Sherlock and Watson run all over London and Paris solving the puzzle and seeking to thwart Moriarty.
This new Sherlock Holmes mystery is inspired by the original story, The Man with the Twisted Lip as well as by the great classic by Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.