This second volume is composed of four stories narrating untold adventures of the most famous detective in the world: Sherlock Holmes. Here, his partner, John Watson, already very aged, get his notebook back to bring light into new adventures never unveiled to other people. Some cases have simply been forgotten, while some others were just too embarrassing to be shared... Until now.

Tales in this volume:

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes
The Monster of Ipswich
The Queen's Ring
The Last Case of Sherlock Holmes

On one of the few cases written by the detective own hands, we can find in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes a shocking revelation. A miss, an employee of one of the most powerful families in London, is charged with theft. Holmes must face a powerful family to prove this miss innocence. But there is something that goes far beyond the simple disappearance of an object. Stories of a distant past reappear to mess with the detective’s head. What kind of mystery will make him to not give this case a closure?

Sherlock Holmes never gave ears to superstitious tales or popular beliefs, but in The Monster of Ipswich, he gets face-to-face with a supernatural situation. An old farmer asks for his help in finding what kind of monster is killing the animals of the nearby farms and the detective set off to this investigation. Very strange things happen amid the search so Sherlock starts doubting what his own eyes have seen. Would the Ipswich monster be a real creature, supernatural or the result of a collective hallucination? There’s only one way to know, and it’s joining Holmes and Watson further on this adventure.

What kind of mystery could have been contained in an old ring? On The Queen’s Ring case, Sherlock had the recover a piece of jewellery that, on a distant past, belonged to the Queen Mary II from the House of Stuart and could take him to solve a mysterious crime involving the British Crown and their belongings. Relying on luck and his expertise in disguises, Sherlock will do everything possible to solve the case which the police refused to give him access.

Already very aged and retired, Sherlock is sought by his long-time acquaintance, Inspector Lestrade, to help to solve a series of crimes which his grandson, Detective Lestrade, is investigating. A surge of violence afflicts London and only the greatest detective of all times can unveil what’s happening. Is it that, even after such a long time of inactivity, Sherlock will be able to gather evidence to solve those mysteries? It’s what we will find out on The Last Case of Sherlock Holmes.

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