This is a new story, set in the Classic Sherlockian mode, narrated by Dr. Watson. It begins in the staid confines of a London Club, and ends up in the heart of Africa. Along the way the reader will encounter gunplay, intrigue, kidnapping, state secrets, courtesans, Japanese mystics, African nobles, and some of the most surprising supporting players in any of Dr. Watson's memoirs. The story starts with a chance meeting, after many years, of two old friends; Dr. Watson and Colonel Hugh Pickering. Pickering, of course, is the very same as may be met in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. As the mystery...