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In 1891, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Holmes – in a last deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty – had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr Watson: ‘I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa.’ This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes’ journey to the East. Jamyang Norbu – an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes’ stay in Lhasa, Tibet. What he unearths is the Mandala, written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookerjee, Holmes’ travelling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and reveals Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing that it is difficult to resist. An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of Kipling’s India