The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

• Leaves: 253
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Back in print to tie-in with The Canary Trainer, this "rediscovered" Sherlock Holmes adventure recounts the unique collaboration of Holmes and Sigmund Freud in the solution of a mystery on which the lives of millions may depend.First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Holmes's friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson. In addition to its breathtaking account of their collaboration on a case of diabolic conspiracy in which the lives of millions hang in the balance, it reveals such matters as the real identity of the heinous professor Moriarty, the dark secret shared by Sherlock and his brother Mycroft Holmes, and the detective's true whereabouts during the Great Hiatus, when the world believed him to be dead.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Foreword......Page 4
Introductory......Page 6
1—Professor Moriarty......Page 9
2—Biographical......Page 17
3—A Decision Is Reached......Page 24
4—Interlude in Pall Mall......Page 28
5—A Journey Through the Fog......Page 33
6—Toby Surpasses Himself......Page 39
7—Two Demonstrations......Page 50
8—A Holiday in Hell......Page 55
9—Concerning a Game of Tennis and a Violin......Page 64
10—A Study in Hysteria......Page 70
11—We Visit the Opera......Page 77
12—Revelations......Page 86
13—Sherlock Holmes Theorizes......Page 94
14—We Join a Funeral......Page 99
15—Pursuit!......Page 106
16—What Happened Next......Page 111
17—The Final Problem......Page 117
Acknowledgements......Page 124