Anthony Horowitz’s The House of Silk (2011)
A new Holmes novel in Watson’s voice, written at the Conan Doyle Estate’s invitation.
If you’ve finished the canon, the next thing is one more case told the old way, by a writer the estate chose.
You have read the stories and you want one more, told in the same voice.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Watson’s narration, the period and the manner; it is written to sit beside the originals.
Changes: the plot, which is new, and how dark Watson is willing to let a case get.
Whose story is it?
Holmes’s, recorded by Watson, as in the originals.
How much time does it ask?
One novel.
Little, Brown and Company, 1 November 2011. Hachette’s copy says the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate selected Horowitz to write it.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More versions: The Complete Novels and Stories, Bantam Classics (two volumes) · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Oxford World’s Classics (2025) · The Hound of the Baskervilles, Oxford World’s Classics (2023)