There is a supporting role for Mycroft, a possible appearance by Moriarty (Watson isn't sure) and a plot of such dazzling complexity that diagrammatic summary wouldn't do it justice.

WSJ: Book Review: The House of Silk

When I say that Gracie and I were shucking the sweet corn, what I actually mean is that Gracie was shucking the corn and I was drawing a diagrammatic map in one of my little blue spiral notebooks of precisely how she was shucking the corn.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'