A Baker Street Dozen

From author S. Subramanian (<i>Before Baker Street, Holmes Away From Home, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk</i>) comes a brand-new collection of traditional Sherlockian pastiches. Cases involving missing sapphires, aluminium crutches, red leeches and paradol chambers, alluded to in the classic canon, are finally explored here, written in the style of Doyle's most faithful pasticheurs.<br><br>Walk side-by-side with the Great Detective as he uncovers "The Beginning of The Final Problem" and undertakes "The Second Adventure of The Empty House." What was the 'Manor House case' that Mycroft mentioned in "The Greek Interpreter?" Did Holmes really travel to the southernmost tip of India during The Great Hiatus? And why would a cricket team seek Holmes's help to persuade one of their members to get out of bed?<br>