Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra

"A story for which the world is not yet prepared." In these words Dr. John Watson, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, describes the legend of Harat, the gigantic rat who ruled over the nation of Bada and its "people who were not human." Their story, hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, is now told at last—in a tale as compelling and colorful as any in the Holmes canon. What begins with a brutal "impossible" murder in a dreary London rooming house soon draws the celebra…