For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.

Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT...

London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.

Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.

The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print...until now.

【柯南‧道爾正宗接班人】

安東尼‧赫洛維茲Anthony Horowitz

英國知名暢銷小說家與編劇。童年時期生活優渥，卻因早逝的父親將財產存入秘密帳戶，赫洛維茲與母親陷入經濟困境，也讓他在學校中備受歧視，唯有在寫作時才能感到快樂。相依為命的母親是赫洛維茲在文字世界的啟蒙人，不僅引導他閱讀《科學怪人》與《吸血鬼卓九勒》，甚至在他十三歲時送給他一副人類骸骨。赫洛維茲表示這個禮物讓他想要知道每個故事的結局，因為很快他也會變得像這副骸骨一樣。

成年後的赫洛維茲果然往作家之路邁進，以《少年間諜艾列克》系列享譽國際文壇，並擔任電視編劇，曾改編過多本謀殺天后阿嘉莎‧克莉絲蒂的作品。他也是眾所皆知的福爾摩斯專家，十六歲起就迷上了福爾摩斯，幾十年來不斷重讀、研究和蒐集相關資料，因此當一手催生本書的文學經紀人羅伯‧寇比與柯南‧道爾家族討論執筆人選時，雖然列出了一份名單，但上面只有一個名字，那就是安東尼‧赫洛維茲！