Prepare for the ultimate meeting of minds. 1916. The year Hercule Poirot solves the mysterious affair at Styles. On the Sussex Downs, Sherlock Holmes, legendary detective turned beekeeper, receives an unexpected visitor. A foreign detective, perplexingly similar to the newly celebrated Belgian policeman.
Meanwhile, Brighton’s Royal Pavilion has been converted into a hospital for Indian Army soldiers wounded on the Western Front in the Great War.
Two retired detectives (both once famous, one forgotten) combine forces to foil a murder plot against Dr Watson – and discover the source of his wealth. In doing so they uncover what has long been ignored: of the four men who made the Sign of The Four, whatever happened to the other three?
This playful mystery is the first of three novellas to feature Sherlock Holmes and his new colleague.
This Kindle original comes with bonus material. First, there is an appendix (of sorts) to The Belgian and the Beekeeper. Then there are two stories – The Great Detective and Basil’s Last Bow – in which movie stars Basil Rathbone and Nigel “Willy” Bruce are called on to solve mysteries linked to their well-loved roles on radio and the silver screen as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. And, finally, there is an excerpt from a full-length novel, Seven Days in Hollywoodland, featuring Rathbone, Bruce and a host of Hollywood Golden Age movie stars in a mystery set in Tinsel Town in 1939.Peter Guttridge is the author of the noir Brighton Trilogy
– City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and The Thing Itself – and a further five novels in the ‘trilogy’ 
