The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure, of Mr. Sherlock Holmes

By Vincent Starrett

His eyes gleamed and he rubbed his hands to gether in profound satisfaction. I could not but hope that Holmes's conjecture was correct, for he had had little to occupy his mind for some weeks, and I lived in constant fear that he would seek that stimulation his active brain required in the long-tabooed cocaine bottle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Release date: Nov 6, 2017

Vincent Starrett

Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) was a Chicago journalist who become one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes. A books columnist for the Chicago Tribune, he also wrote biographies of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, Starrett is best known for writing The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933), an imaginative biography of the famous sleuth.