Time for Sherlock Holmes

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1983). First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, the only blemish being the previous owner's initials plus date & circumstances of acquisition in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket has just a touch of edgewear and some minor wrinkling near the top of the front flap]. Long after their respective retirements and their last case together, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson mett up again at Holmes's farm in Sussex, and find themselves feeling "young again, thanks to Holmes's discovery, the elixir of youth and immortality." Thus invigorated, they take on a dangerous and difficult case that begins with the assassination of Britain's Prime Minister. The culprit behind this crime turns out to be their old arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, who has stolen "the legendary Time Machine, an all-too-real invention that [he] stole years ago from H.G. Wells's time traveler," and plans to use it to go back and forth in time, "assassinating the world's greatest leaders, thus throwing the planet into utter chaose so that he can step in as its absolute ruler." (If some of this sounds familiar, it's because you might be thinking of the novel and 1979 movie "Time After Time," which featured H.G. Wells himself chasing Jack the Ripper across time.) .