January 1888 Dr. John H. Watson has returned to 221b Baker Street just weeks after a personal tragedy has left him bereaved and bereft. Feeling like a broken man his plans and dreams lying in ruin he slowly tries to make his way forward with the help of Sherlock Holmes and Mrs. Hudson. Unexpectedly he finds himself standing in the path of a madman who suddenly and irrationally blames Watson for his apparent defeat.Meanwhile Holmes has tried to distract his griefstricken friend by telling stories of his past cases including how a decade before he recovered a mysterious relic The Eye of Heka stolen from the British Museum. But Holmess plan to show Watson this unique and ancient idol goes suddenly and terribly wrong as both are swept into a series of events one tumbling rapidly upon another that lead to thefts murders and possibly a war that might quickly escalate to draw in nations from most of the world. And always there is the madman in the shadows waiting for his next chance to attack . . . .From The Notebooks of Dr. John H. Watson comes another story by Sherlockian David Marcum author of over eighty traditional Holmes pastiches including those collected in The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt and Sherlock Holmes Tangled Skeins.Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes the man described by the estimable Dr. Watson as the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known.The game is afoot