David Burke

In a brilliant coda to the play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn receives mysterious letters that take him back to the theme of his bestselling novel, Headlong -- human folly, this time his own. Michael Frayn's Copenhagen has established itself as one of the finest pieces of drama to grace the stage in recent years. The subject of the Tony-winning play is the strange visit the German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg made to his former mentor, scientist...

The life of the world's most famous detective is examined side-by-side with that of his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes' greatest cases, his most brilliant deductions, and his notorious weaknesses are featured along with Doyle's own tale of how Jack the Ripper helped boost sales of the first Sherlock Holmes story ever published.