Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man

In 1897 H.G. Wells told the story of Griffin, the man who became invisible and then could not return to normal. When he died he left his notes at the public house that later bore his name. Ten years later the journalist Langdale Pike calls at the Invisible Man, negotiates to buy the notebooks and goes to London to get the cash from his newspaper; before he can return to Sussex the landlord of the pub is murdered and the books stolen. Pike turns to his friend Dr. John Watson for help and, in the absence of Sherlock Holmes abroad, Watson applies Holmes methods in tracking down a killer. The trail leads to a self-styled magician, Aleister Crowley, and from him to another literary figure, Arthur Machen. Watson and Pike are involved in a number of incidents leading to the Imperial German Embassy and so to a house in Half Moon Street, where strange discoveries are made. Aided by Mycroft Holmes, Crowley and Scotland Yard, Watson can report success to Sherlock Holmes when the consulting detective returns from the Continent.