"Over the years of our friendship, Sherlock Holmes has faced many riddles. Without false modesty, I’ll note that in several cases the person who drew his attention to an investigation was—myself. But, of course, no one of these mysterious crimes can compare with the series of terrible murders that shook Lambeth and the slums along Waterloo Road in the last decade of the previous century".
This book tells what role the great detective played in investigating the biggest crimes and delicate situations that, if made public, would have done considerable harm to the reputation of the royal family and the government—and also disrupted order and peace in the country. The manuscript of Dr. Watson, finished shortly after Holmes’s death, lay for a long time locked away in the state archives on Chancery Lane. And only now, seventy years later, we can finally read about Sherlock Holmes’s secret investigations.