The previous diaries of Arthur Conan Doyle tell of the shadowy real life
Sherlock Holmes, a medical school dropout. While in the laboratory of
Dr. Joseph Bell, a brilliant Edinburgh surgeon, Holmes learned anatomy,
surgery, observation and deduction. These skills and his ability to
solve crimes led to his recruitment by the British secret service. In
this the last of three diaries, Doyle recounts a series of murders and
the pursuit of a sinister Russian assassin from Edinburgh to the
Yosemite Valley in California. When the case, involving a California
millionaire and Chinese tongs becomes desperate, the British secret
service sent Sherlock Holmes. The case ended in his death but the great
detective lives on in the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle.
John Raffensperger, MD, a retired pediatric surgeon, operated on babies
with birth defects and children with cancer for nearly fifty years then
turned to writing medical history and fiction. His interest in Dr.
Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh surgeon and the model for Sherlock Holmes led
to this trilogy.
Richard Krevolin, playwright, book doctor and artist provided the
inspiration and the idea for using lost diaries as a vehicle for telling
the story.