When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle Michal Dibdin has done an excellent job of invoking the feel and tone of a Holmesian story. The snide and condensing way that Holmes treats everyone he meets. The kindness and slight dimwittedness of Watson. The grudging respect of Detective Lestrade. And the many small ways in which Sherlock Holmes shows himself to be of a superior mind. There is the common enough ploy of having a lost manuscript surface in which one more tale of the Great Detective comes to light. …