Orlando Pearson, master narrator of history and Holmestry, has done it again.In this eighth volume of the acclaimed Redacted Sherlock Holmes we learn:- what Moriarty had done to be regarded as the Napoleon of crime- why Watson's wound was first described as being in the shoulder and then in the leg;- what happened in the first Hiatus between Holmes and Watson meeting after the Battle of Maiwand in 1880 and the first dated case in 1887;- the fate of Agatha, Holmes's fiancee from Charles Augustus MilvertonHolmes also discovers a King of England while Mycroft suppresses the acts of a monster.