Few literary characters have stimulated the imagination like Alice, the girl who fell down the rabbit hole, and Sherlock Holmes, who taught the world what it meant to be a detective. In 1875 Charles Dodgson—a.k.a. Lewis Carroll—was at the height of his fame, and Arthur Conan Doyle was just beginning to write. Together they would solve some of the greatest mysteries of Victorian times.
Roberta Rogow’s Doyle and Dodgson meet in the Brighton rail terminal in The Problem of the Missing Miss (1998) and combine forces to find a girl who has disappeared. They renew their partnership two months later in The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist (1999) to solve the murder of one of Doyle’s patients. The unlikely duo takes to Fleet Street in The Problem of the Evil Editor (2000) to solve a journalistic murder, and the two confront their greatest challenge of all in The Problem of the Surly Servant (2001), when Dodgson becomes a suspect in a murder at Oxford.