Moriarty: A Novel

This historical mystery explores what happened when Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty fell to their deaths at the Reichenbach Falls. Sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, the novel is set in the days following their fatal encounter at the Swiss waterfall. Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York to investigate. With Moriarty dead, a dangerous vacuum has opened in the criminal underworld, and multiple figures compete to claim his position as leader of London's underworld. Chase works alongside Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a follower of Holmes's investigative methods, to track a mysterious criminal mastermind seeking to become Moriarty's successor. The two detectives navigate from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks in a tense pursuit through England's capital. The novel combines murder, menace, and the dark world of Victorian-era crime.