Andrew Lycett
The Adventure of the Concealed Manuscript
The Narrative of John Smith
By Arthur Conan Doyle
British Library Publishing 158pp £9.95 order from our bookshop
I cannot deny I was grateful when a pleasing thud on the doorstep of our comfortable suite of rooms in Baker Street caused my friend Sherlock Holmes to look up from his melancholy scrapings on the violin.
Our landlady Mrs Hudson descended the seventeen steps to the hall and returned clutching a brown paper package which she handed to Holmes.
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