Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, said: It’s only publishers and some journalists who believe that people want simple things. People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. At heart, this volume is a kind of literary game, designed for those who enjoy sifting through exfoliates. With this seriously epistolary trilogy, Thomas Kent Miller is for the first time publishing in one volume the wide variety of millennia- and centuries-old lost manuscripts that he has serendipitously unearthed over 30 years. These writings are all linked by their featuring characters introduced by H. Rider Haggard, prime mover of the lost race literary genre, over the course of sixteen books written from 1885 through 1927 and, to a lesser extent, indeed, only referenced obliquely, The Great Detective, over three decades!