Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years
The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet: A Novel
by Jamyang Norbu
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A new Sherlock Holmes mystery worthy of the master Sir Conan Doyle himself.
In 1891, a horrified public learned that Sherlock Holmes-in a last deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty-had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, popular demand made Sir Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informed a stunned Dr. Watson, "I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Llasa."
Nothing has been known of those missing years until Jamyang Norbu's discovery of the Mandala, a carefully wrapped package in a rusting tin box. When opened, the package reveals a Bengali scholar's own account of his travels with Holmes. The Mandala holds the key to a mystery and tells the story of Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing, that it is impossible to resist. An exciting, often richly humorous detective story, Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years also evokes the romance of Kipling's India. Jamyang Norbu has written a mystical, playful, and witty page-turner.
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Private investigators, Fiction, Historical fiction, Mystery fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, India, fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, China, fictionPeople
Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), Hurrish Chunder Mookerji (1824-1861), Sherlock Holmes, Hurrish Chunder MookerjiPlaces
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Anos Perdidos de Sherlock Holmes, Los NB: 38
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Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of the Great Detective in Tibet
January 2003, Harper Collins Publishers India
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The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Nobu, Jabang)
February 21, 2002, John Murray
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Le Mandala de Sherlock Holmes
January 27, 2001, Philippe Picquier
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Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years: The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet: A Novel
December 1, 1999, Bloomsbury Books
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in English
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The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: the adventures of the great detective in Tibet
1999, HarperCollins Publishers
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Book Details
First Sentence
"Too many of Dr. John Watson's unpublished manuscripts (usually discovered in 'a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box' somewhere in the vaults of the vaults of the bank of Cox & Company, at Charing Cross) have come to light in recent years, for a long-suffering reading public not to greet the discovery of yet another Sherlock Holmes story with suspicion."
Edition Notes
"Based on the reminiscences of Hurree Chunder Mookerjee ..., Rai Bahadur ...."
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Printing statement: "First U.S. Edition" [over] "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
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In 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Then, to its amazement, he reappeared two years later, informing a stunned Watson, 'I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa.'
Nothing has been known of those missing years until Jamyang Norbu's discovery, in a rusting tin dispatch box in Darjeeling, of a flat packet carefully wrapped in waxed paper and neatly tied with stout twine. When opened the packet revealed Huree Chunder Mookerjee's (Kipling's Bengali spy and scholar) own account of his travels with Sherlock Holmes.
Now for the first time, we learn of Holmes's brush with the Great Game and the world of Kim. We follow him north across the hot and duty plains of India to Simla, summer capital of the British Raj, and over the high passes to the vast emptiness of the Tibetan plateau. In the medieval splendor that is Lhasa, intrigue and black treachery stalk the shadows, and Sherlock Holmes confronts his greatest challenge.
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