This book is my humble attempt to shine a light on the work of the best and wisest I have ever
known. He has I think it is safe to say elevated the science of detection into an art form.
Having been at his side during some of his most remarkable cases it has fallen to me to bring
his achievements to the attention of the wider public. He is quite simply the Mozart of
criminal investigation. I would say more but I am flattered and delighted to say that
Sherlock Holmes himself has agreed to write a piece for the cover. John Watson Don¿t buy
this book. The author has transformed what should have been a series of lectures into a gross
and tasteless entertainment. The science of deduction is a branch of human achievement
requiring serious analysis and yet here I find it lavishly illustrated disfigured with humour
and infested with gossip. Apparently this kind of sensationalism is required to engage the
interest of the reading public but it is rather like working an office romance into a paper on
quantum physics. Only an idiot would be impressed. Help yourself. Sherlock Holmes
