Sherlock Holmes is dead. London is plunged into darkness... Sherlock Holmes and his sworn enemy Moriarty engage in mortal combat at the Reichenbach Falls; Frederick Chase, an employee of the Pinkerton detective agency, comes to Europe from New York. Moriarty's death created a vacuum in the criminal world, which hastened to be filled by a new criminal genius, ready to take the place of the deceased professor, Holmes' mortal enemy. In the company of Scotland Yard detective Athelney Jones, who skillfully uses the deductive method of Sherlock Holmes, Chase wanders through the dark corners of the English capital to to expose this gray eminence, whom everyone is afraid of, but no one has seen, and who intends to plunge London into the abyss of atrocities and murders. The characters are brilliantly written, the pace of the story is simply breathtaking - Horowitz weaves a merciless and fatal yarn, and the reader tremblingly swallows the book - page after page. The author managed to combine the recognizable style and language of Conan Doyle with a completely new plot - at the end of the novel the reader will find an absolutely unpredictable outcome. P.S. As a gift to readers, there is a previously unpublished story, “Three Nuns,” a story that sheds light on the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and detective Athelney Jones, the hero of Doyle’s story “The Sign of Four.”

Anthony Horowitz is a world-famous British writer and screenwriter. It was he who was entrusted by the heirs of Arthur Conan Doyle with the creation of a new novel about Sherlock Holmes. “The House of Silk” (2011) became a bestseller all over the world, including in Russia. Horowitz’s books have been published in more than 30 countries. He began writing at the age of eight, and at twenty he became a professional author. Anthony Horowitz is not only a great crime writer; he is a screenwriter of famous television series, including Agatha Christie's Poirot with Russia's favorite David Suchet in the title role and A Purely English Murder. Anthony Horowitz has repeatedly said that his main source of inspiration is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ever since Anthony came into contact with his “Notes on Sherlock Holmes” at the age of sixteen. “Moriarty” is Horowitz’s new novel, based on the works of Conan. Doyle. This book is the main gift for everyone who loves a real English detective story and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Anthony Horowitz once again invites us into the world created by the magnificent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The game continues...