Publisher's Synopsis
In this tour de force of biographical investigation, Sherlock Holmes authority, Kelvin I. Jones, applies his forensic and investigative skills as to why Conan Doyle so hated his fictional detective; the scandal of the author's secret eleven - year affair with Jean Leckie, a dazzling musical talent, and his subsequent use of her, and her mysterious psychic friend, in his Spiritualist mission to change the world.