The overall game is once again afoot within this thrilling mystery from your bestselling writer of THE HOME of Silk, sanctioned with the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.

Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s nail-biting fresh novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty-dubbed the Napoleon of crime” by Holmes-in on the subject of Moriarty the aftermath of their fateful struggle in the Reichenbach Falls.

Days after the encounter in the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Run after arrives in European countries from NY. Moriarty’s death offers left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the legal underworld, and there is no shortage of applicants to consider his place-including one especially fiendish criminal mastermind.

Run after and Scotland Lawn Inspector Athelney Jones, a dedicated college student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, have to forge a route through the darkest sides of England’s capital-from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways from the London Docks-in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man very much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty’s successor.

A riveting, deeply atmospheric story of murder and menace in one of the only authors to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle’s estate, Moriarty breathes lifestyle into Holmes’s dark and interesting world.