The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

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In 189/, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Holmes — in a last deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty — had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, populär demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr Watson: 'I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa.'
This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes's jöurney to the East. Jamyang Norbu — an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle — decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes'^ stay in Lhasa, Tibet. What he unearths is the Mandala, written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookerjee, Holmes's travelling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and reveals Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing that it is difficult to resist.
An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of... Tovább

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In 189/, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Holmes — in a last deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty — had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, populär demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr Watson: 'I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa.'
This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes's jöurney to the East. Jamyang Norbu — an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle — decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes'^ stay in Lhasa, Tibet. What he unearths is the Mandala, written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookerjee, Holmes's travelling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and reveals Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing that it is difficult to resist.
An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of Kipling's Jindia. ,
'Jamyang Norbu is renowned as one of the best* Tibetan writers at work today,,i principally on account of his polemic essays. In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes he has produced a scintillating, learned and extremely skilful work of fiction, revealing the secret of Holmees "missing" years in India and Tibet. Read this, and your view of the great detective, will never be the same again.'
W¦¦¦t —Patrick French
Author of Younghusband . t % and Liberty ór Death Vissza