Moriarty

Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz. Published in 2014 it is the sequel to The House of Silk. Moriarty takes place in 1891, after the events of Doyle's “The Final Problem”. Sherlock Holmes only appears at the end of the novel. Those detectives that Sherlock has worked with in previous cases, such as Athelney Jones and Lestrade, are the main characters.

The novel follows Frederick Chase and Athelney Jones as they try to prevent a new criminal mastermind taking over the streets of London after Moriarty's demise. Moriarty is a fair mystery novel. It has traps, disguises, adventures and a twist. But it never scratched my Holmesian itch. It is a fairly melancholy affair.