Watson and Holmes: A Study In Black

Watson and Holmes: A Study In Black by Bollers, Karl. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781939516015.

Collecting the entire first arc of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson re-envisioning as African Americans living in New York Citys famous Harlem district. Watson, an Afghanistan war vet, works in an inner-city clinic; Holmes, a local P.I. who takes unusual cases. When one of them ends up in Watsons emergency room, the unlikely duo strike up a partnership to find a missing girl. Watson & Holmes bump heads along the way as they enter a labyrinth of drugs, guns, gangs and a conspiracy that goes higher and deeper than they could have imagined. Containing epilogue issue #5 as well as chock full of extra material on the evolution of a new classic.