Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years
Subtitle: The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet: A Novel
By: Jamyang Norbu.
Edition: First U.S. edition
Series: Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Books
Published: December 1, 1999
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Mookerji, Hurrish Chunder, 1824-1861 -- Fiction.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- China -- Tibet -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- India -- Fiction.; Tibet (China) -- Fiction.; India -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
First sentence: Too many of Dr. John Watson's unpublished manuscripts (usually discovered in 'a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box' somewhere in the vaults of the vaults of the bank of Cox & Company, at Charing Cross) have come to light in recent years, for a long-suffering reading public not to greet the discovery of yet another Sherlock Holmes story with suspicion.
Description: A new Sherlock Holmes mystery worthy of the master Sir Conan Doyle himself. 
In 1891, a horrified public learned that Sherlock Holmes-in a last deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty-had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, popular demand made Sir Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informed a stunned Dr. Watson, "I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Llasa." 

Nothing has been known of those missing years until Jamyang Norbu's discovery of the Mandala, a carefully wrapped package in a rusting tin box. When opened, the package reveals a Bengali scholar's own account of his travels with Holmes. The Mandala holds the key to a mystery and tells the story of Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing, that it is impossible to resist. An exciting, often richly humorous detective story, Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years also evokes the romance of Kipling's India. Jamyang Norbu has written a mystical, playful, and witty page-turner.
Notes: "Based on the reminiscences of Hurree Chunder Mookerjee ..., Rai Bahadur ...."
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