The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D

Meyer once again delivers a fast-paced mystery that faithfully re-creates the dynamic between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson (a follow-up to The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols). The premise of Meyer’s Holmes pastiche is that it’s a previously unreleased manuscript by Watson, telling the tale of a missing noble, an undiscovered pharaoh’s tomb, and plenty of murder. In 1910 Watson travels to a sanitarium in Egypt to provide his ailing wife comfort and an atmosphere to speed her healing process. Juliet Watson has a full schedule of rest, mud baths, and tonics that leave much of her husband’s time free to explore. He is surprised and excited when he bumps into a disguised Sherlock Holmes, who immediately folds Watson into the case. A duke has gone missing, leaving a trail of unpaid bills and his wife searching for him. Holmes discovers that the duke was in Cairo, searching for gold in the undiscovered tomb of Tuthmose. When three other treasure seekers die under suspicious circumstances, Holmes and Watson, aided by Howard Carter, are in a race to either save or capture the duke and his accomplices.