One of my favorites from my Sherlockian collection, “The Crimes of Dr. Watson, an Interactive Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” ed. Duane Swierczynski, Quirk Books (2007). There are letters and paper objects to help you unravel the mystery. Also, a facsimile copy of The Final Problem is inserted into the tale. Highly recommended.
First, falling from a cliff… then a face moving back and forth in the dark, suddenly appearing in another spot… the frozen certainty that something unbearable is about to happen: this dream has haunted nineteen-year-old Meg for ten years, ever since she went to live with her unfeeling English father after her mother’s death. “
^This book in the centre with the gold lettering on the spine is:
The Eight, published December 27, 1988, is American author Katherine Neville’s debut novel. Compared to the works of Umberto Eco when it first appeared[citation needed], it is a postmodernthriller in which the heroine, accountant Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of the Montglane Service, a legendary chessset once owned by Charlemagne. (x)
The story follows two lives- one in 1972 and one in 1790 but both characters’ fates are connected. The most interesting part of the plot summary for me was:
In 1972, Cat Velis faces a similar atmosphere of conspiracy, assassination and betrayal. When she is requested by an antique dealer to recover the chess pieces, she unwittingly enters into a mysterious game that will endanger her life. As she learns the story of the Montglane Service, she begins to realize that players of the Game may plan their moves, but their very existence makes them pawns as well.
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