The WhiteChapel Files

About This Story

The classics, reimagined.

Holmes is a freelance forensic consultant working out of a cluttered flat in Marylebone... brilliant, exacting, and eighteen months out of contact with the one person who makes the work liveable, Watson. James Watson is an A&E surgeon at a Whitechapel hospital, still carrying more mental baggage from his last army tour than he mentions to anyone. When a body lands in Watson's morgue bay with an injury pattern that doesn't fit the official account, they find themselves in the same room for the first time in a year and a half, and back inside a case before either of them has agreed to take it. The Whitechapel Files is a contemporary reimagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories, set in the London of data brokers and corporate impunity. Twelve chapters delivered daily to your inbox - crisp, noir-tinged, with moments of genuine warmth that the prose never quite admits to.

This is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887–1927), public domain works. The original stories and characters are in the public domain; this modern adaptation contains new creative elements that are © Oliver Latouf 2026. This adaptation is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate or any previous publishers of the Sherlock Holmes stories.