With so much pressure on Harold’s shoulders, failure isn’t an option. He trusts Harold more than he trusts the authorities. The authorities want him to stay out of it, but Conan Doyle’s own great-grandson hires Harold to solve the murder. Putting himself into Holmes’s shoes, he sets about investigating the crime scene. Determined to prove his innocence, he decides to solve the case on his own. Harold worries that everyone will blame him because he is the newest society member. Everyone is convinced that someone murdered Alex to steal the diary, because it is nowhere to be found. Alex was a leading Holmes scholar who claimed that he had recently discovered Conan Doyle’s lost diary. The news rocks the Algonquin to the core, but it is the Sherlockians and the society who suffer the most. Someone strangled him with his own shoelace and wrote cryptic words on the wall in Alex’s blood. Alex Cale is found dead in his hotel room at the Algonquin. However, before his celebration gets underway, news of a murder breaks out. He checks into the Algonquin Hotel and buys a bottle of champagne to celebrate. Unable to believe his good fortune, Harold immediately boards a flight to New York. Everyone wants to meet him in New York City right away.

One day, Harold realizes his dream: someone contacts him, inviting him to join the society. No one can join the elusive society unless a current member nominates them. Like most Sherlockians, Harold dreams about receiving an invitation to join a society known as the Baker Street Irregulars. They know everything there is to know about Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories and novels featuring Holmes. “Sherlockians” like Harold are all lifelong Holmes enthusiasts. He is obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, and when he isn’t working at his day job, he’s studying everything there is to know about the famous English detective. Harold White is a twenty-nine-year-old Princeton graduate who currently works as a literary researcher in Hollywood. Moore is best known for his screenplay, The Imitation Game, which won an Academy Award. The Sherlockian, his debut novel, is available in thirteen languages in more than sixteen countries. Moore is an award-winning screenwriter and New York Times bestselling novelist.

Receiving widespread critical praise for linking the past to the present, the book was nominated for various literary awards. The Sherlockian (2010) a historical mystery by Graham Moore, centers on a modern-day Sherlock Holmes enthusiast who stumbles upon a real-life murder that he must solve by thinking like Holmes.

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