{"product_id":"9781456805760","title":"Sherlock Holmes' Last Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone knew that Sherlock Holmes perished in a titanic struggle with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls in the year 1891.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least they thought they knew that. Until...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil some three years later he suddenly reappeared in London, alive and well, the same old Sherlock Holmes...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr...was he?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is only one of the questions examined in the pages of Sherlock Holmes? Last Case.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis manuscript among the recently discovered effects of Doctor John H. Watson, as edited by novelist Robert D?Artagnan, gives us a description of what may have been Sherlock Holmes? final adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat adventure describes intrigue and a clever scheme to discredit an internationally known figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it involves more than that. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnexpectedly Holmes? own worst enemy in some ways would suddenly seem to be himself...would seem so indeed... were it not for the ominous presence of Colonel Moriarty seeking vengeance for the death of his late brother.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then, for Sherlock Holmes, everything is at risk ...reputation, self-esteem and life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe newsletter of the prestigious and long-established SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY OF LONDON says this . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherlock Holmes' Last Case\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Robert D'Artagnan (Xlibris, \u003cu\u003exlibris.com,\u003c\/u\u003e $29.69 hardback, $19.54 trade paperback), takes Holmes and Watson to Vienna to meet Sigmund Freud, and gives a sensational new account of what really happened during the Great Hiatus - but it's not a re-run of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Seven-per-Cent Solution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  The year is 1908:  At Martha Freud's request Holmes investigates her husband's peculiar behaviour, and Freud helps him to solve the mystery of Reichenbach and the years that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Freud's persecutor, we discover, is someone who will later have a profound effect on the history of Austria, and indeed of the world.  It's heady stuff, excitingly told . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---- excerpted from the book review by Roger Johnson, Editor of the Newsletter, who also calls \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherlock Holmes' Last Case\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"a rattling good read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174679757040,"sku":"9781456805760","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781456805760_p0.jpg?v=1763860392","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781456805760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}