Download or read book The Confessions of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson's mission to Rome written by Thomas Mengert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic work of over 830,000 words, the "true nature of the relations between Sherlock Holmes and his arch-nemesis Professor James Moriarty [are explored]. It also explores the relations between the brothers of Sherlock Holmes: Sherringford and Mycroft, and the tragic loss of Holmes' mother to tuberculosis, a disease that later plagued the detective's own life and accounts for his absence from London between 1879 and 1898. Included also in The Confessions is the story of the lost years of the 'Great Hiatus' when Sherlock Holmes traveled in Tibet, Persia, Africa, and did chemical research in France. The later volumes take Holmes and Watson to America where they meet again the diva, Irene Adler....Told in a unique 'entwined method' Holmes and Watson each tell a separate story throughout the book, which was compiled between the war years of 1914 to 1917 as his last legacy by an aging Dr. Watson." -- Cover, page [4].