Dr. John H Watson, chronicler of the life of the great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, left in his effects after his death a manuscript containing previously unpublished notebooks which set out cases the master of disguise worked on in the later years of his life. With no corroborating evidence for the authenticity of the documents (the bombing of the London in 1942 obliterated the vault of the holding bank in which the evidence was kept) the cases remained locked away for many years. Today, however, the secret notebooks can be read. The puzzling Case of the Upwood Scandal, the baffling Case of the Aluminium Crutch, the Case of the Cardinal's Corpse and the Case of the Vanishing Barque are among some of the many mysteries-and their surprising solutions-detailed within the resulting book, The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes.