Revelations from the dispatch box of Doctor John Watson. These seven stories previously featured in various volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories and other anthologies. They come together in their own collection for the first time. The Incident of the Absent Thieves Holmes, left alone temporarily by the newly-married Watson, narrates an early episode in his career. While living in Montague Street he is approached by the wife of a well-known thief to discover the whereabouts of her husband and son. It seems that, two months previously, they had entered premises in Whitechapel with the intention of stealing a private art collection, and disappeared from the face of the Earth. The Adventure of the Ten Tall Men Mrs. Fanshawe, a middle-aged resident of the Kent village of Tarnfields, tells Holmes of her curiosity about the ten near-identical men who, one after another, repeatedly visit the local tailor's shop for no apparent reason. The Adventure of Canal Reach Mycroft's clerk relates a strange experience. While on holiday, he met a man who befriended him and insisted, to his astonishment, on paying all his expenses. On responding to his new-found friend's invitation to visit him at a later date, he is astonished to find that the address is a derelict house beside a canal. The Adventure of Marcus Davery A client relates the story of his son's demise. It has been accepted as suicide as a result of mounting gambling debts, but Holmes is asked to investigate t...
