The Whole Art of Detection

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
First edition
AuthorLyndsay Faye
GenreMystery novels
PublisherMysterious Press
Publication date
2017
Media typePrint (Hardback)
ISBN978-0802125927 (first edition, hardback)

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes is an anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiche short stories by Lyndsay Faye. All but two of the stories have been previously published with 10 of the 15 stories were originally published in The Strand Magazine in slightly different form. The stories are divided chronologically into four sections: pre-Baker Street, the early adventures of Holmes and Watson, adventures during the "great hiatus", and the retirement years. Many of the stories are based on references in the Canon of Sherlock Holmes such as "Colonel Warburton’s Madness", a reference made in "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb".