Author's Note

Moriarty is dead. Or so they thought.

'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable... must be the truth.'

Sherlock Holmes' trusted maxim has now been stretched to its limits with the supposed resurrection of Jim Moriarty. Two weeks after the case of Charles Magnussen, the consulting detective must again come face to face with the consulting criminal.

Delving deep into his past, a case from long ago is brought to light- a case that was once Sherlock's greatest defeat. Now, he and the team at 221B Baker Street must once again face their most changeable enemy who is supposedly still alive- or is he?

The truth often seems stranger than fiction, but never before has it been this improbable.