Having suffered hagiography, fictional re-creation, and character assassination—albeit much genuine appreciation as well—Sigmund Freud's life has surely deserved to be assimilated into a great literary myth; here we find him in concert with his foremost patient, Sherlock Holmes of 221-B Baker Street. Based on a brilliant conjecture of Dr. David Musto of Yale (who brought the two protagonists together years ago in the course of his own pursuit of the trail of cocaine), the story offers not only an addition to Freud's early case histories but also the