The modern hero is twentysomething Harold Whitemild, bookish, and smart. Hes just been initiated into the prestigious Baker Street Irregulars when a premier Holmes expert announces that he has found Conan Doyles long-lost 1900 diary. Then the expert is murdered. Maybe. The game is afoot, and sos Harold. The hero of the alternate chapters is Conan Doyle himself, gleeful after sending that hawkshaw Holmes to his death at Reichenbach Falls and ready to write real literature. But murders intervene, and he and his friend Bram Stoker must investigate. All these gumshoes, past and present, use Holmes methods. Moore spins his tale in prose that shifts easily from exposition to pathos to sly comedy.
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