Description

Sherlock Holmes confronts the unknown in ten baffling tales that challenge his formidable mental powers, as well as his unshakable conviction that the world is a sane and rational place.

From the baffling enigma of spontaneous human combustion to the possibility that coins minted during the era of supposedly mythical Atlantis survived into Victorian times, London’s premier consulting detective is tested and tried as never before, as his investigations cross the path of Algernon Blackwood‘s famed psychic physician, Dr. John Silence.

Will Holmes’s firm belief in an exclusively scientific reality hold––or must he at last give ground to the detested possibility that supernatural forces operate at will, unseen and only suspected?

CONTENTS

Introduction

The Singular Problem of the Extinguished Wicks

The Mystery of the Spectral Shelter

The Problem of the Surrey Samson

The Uncanny Adventure of the Hammersmith Wonder

The Repulsive Matter of the Bloodless Banker

The Adventure of the Abominable Adder    

The Adventure of the Sorrowing Mudlark

The Adventure of the Emerald Urchin

The Adventure of the Expelled Master      

The Conundrum of the Questionable Coins   

Afterword