num_pages: 279
description: In 1891, the public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Then, to their amazement, he reappeared two years later, informing the stunned 'I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa' Nothing has been known of those two missing years until Jamyang Norbu's discovery, in a rusting tin dispatch box in Darjeeling, of a flat packet carefully wrapped in waxed paper and neatly tied with stout twine. When opened the packet revealed Hurree Chunder Mookerjee's own account of his travels with Sherlock Holmes. Now, for the first time, we learn of Sherlock Holmes's brush with the Great Game, with Colonel Creighton, Lurgan Sahib and the world of Kim. We follow him north across the hot and dusty plains of India to Simla, summer capital of the British Raj, and over the high passes to the vast emptiness of the Tibetan plateau. In the medieval splendour that is Lhasa, intrigue and black treachery stalk the shadows, and in the remote and icy fastnesses of the Trans-Himalayas good and evil battle for ascendancy. As Patrick French has written, 'Read this, and your view of the great detective will never the same again.'
language: English
title: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes : The Missing Years - His Exploits in India and Tibet As Faithfully Recorded by Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, C.I.E., F.R.S
titlecomplete: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes : The Missing Years - His Exploits in India and Tibet As Faithfully Recorded by Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, C.I.E., F.R.S
genres: Crime, India, Detective, Fantasy, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 2072
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Crossword Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: John Murray