Chronicles of the Lost Years

Watson takes up his pen one last time to describe in a private memoir the true tale of Holmes' adventures during his three-year absence from Baker Street, and provides a fictional explanation for many of the mysteries and inaccuracies found with the Sherlock Holmes collection of stories and novels. The answers come in the shape of a woman--Elizabeth Sigerson. Elizabeth is independent, practical, a crack shot with a pistol, and definitely not a woman of her time. Elizabeth can more than hold her own against Holmes' abilities, but she has a secret that Holmes is compelled to solve.Elizabeth is embroiled in Holmes' life at a time when Holmes is building his scheme to expose Moriarty. She is to remain a vital yet secret part of his life for thirteen years--not only sharing Holmes' journey around Asia and his return to London, but also helping him survive the dangers he meets along the way. With Watson's connivance they settle into a secret, hedonistic life together. But Moriarty has not finished with them yet; he escapes his Dartmoor prison and returns to exact revenge. He abducts Elizabeth and the game's afoot!Chronicles of the Lost Years brilliantly replicates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's narrative style, using Watson as the first-person narrator. It takes a more humane perspective of Sherlock Holmes, a perspective that has become popular since Jeremy Brett's brilliant portrayal of the great detective in the Thames Television series. This book won the Sherlock Holmes Society's Best Pastiche Award in 1995.