β Scribed by Lyndsay Faye
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Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow , which pitted the famous detective against Jack the Ripper, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine , whose predecessor published the very first Sherlock Holmes short story in 1891.
Faye's best Holmes tales, including two new works, are brought together in The Whole Art of Detection , a stunning collection that spans Holmes's career, from self-taught young upstart to publicly lauded detective, both before and after his faked death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. In "The...
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