The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: 50 Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection

xiii, [1], 171 pp. Join Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.