Based on characters created by Conan Doyle.

"Book Club edition."--Jacket

Unpack your deerstalker cap, your calabash pipe and your pocket magnifying glass--the great detective is back! It seems that, among the effects of the renowned Dr. John Watson, was found a memoir which begins: "The dreadful case of the blood crucifer occurred in London in 1887 and formed one of the most painful and alarming episodes in my long association with Mr. Sherlock Holmes. We were young, and most of our career lay before us. If some other eye should read this memoir, and some other hand be tempted to present it to the public in narrative form, it will, I hope, become apparent why I myself consider it best to leave unrendered, the heart of this appalling story. "It had begun, some thirty years before in India, during the Great Mutiny, at the Red Fort of Agra ..."

Thus, playwright Paul Giovanni has stepped into the illustrious shoes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and presented an ever-increasing audience of Holmesian admirers with a new spine-chiller.

From the Red Fort's hundred gates to an opium den in London's Limehouse district, Holmes' astounding deductive powers unravel the mystery of a bloody curs. Nefarious actions and delicious thrills abound.

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