Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out-of-print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes? career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds? greatest detective.Sherlock Holmes? desire for a peaceful life in the Sussex countryside is dashed when true-life muckraker and author David Graham Phillips is assassinated, leaving behind little clues as to why he was murdered. The pleas of his sister draws Holmes and Watson to the far side of the Atlantic, where a web of deceit, violence and intrigue unravels as they embark on one of their most challenging cases.