The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes

The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes presents eight new stories about Holmes which set the great detective against the background of Victorian England, an era of enormous progress, in science, transport, and medicine but which also witnessed a surge in urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each of the stories in this collection engages with an aspect of this background. In 'The Sicilian Defence', Holmes comes to the aid of a disgraced army veteran who has fallen in love ...