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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

  • 237 pages ยท about 4 hours
  • First published 1974
  • 15 editions

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1 About this book

First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Holmes's friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson. In addition to its breathtaking account of their collaboration on a case of diabolic conspiracy in which the lives of millions hang in the balance, it reveals such matters as the real identity of the heinous professor Moriarty, the dark secret shared by Sherlock and his brother Mycroft Holmes, and the detective's true whereabouts during the Great Hiatus, when the world believed him to be dead.--Goodreads.

Nicholas Meyer's Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution retroactively changes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem" while confronting Holmes's cocaine addiction and explaining what drives the man.

Good for readers who want: adventure and a mystery.

  • Adventure
  • Crime
  • Mystery
  • Thrillers
  • Mystery & detective, traditional
  • Mystery & detective, historical
  • Secrets
  • Conspiracy

2 About Nicholas Meyer

Born 1945

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and author known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature films, the 1983 television film The Day After, and the 1999 HBO original film Vendetta.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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