A slight trick of the mind
By: by Mitch Cullin
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782113300; 9781782113324
Subjects: Older men - Fiction; Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) - Fiction; Memory - Fiction; Holmes, Sherlock - Fiction; Private investigators - Fiction; Fiction
Description: It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers to questions of his own - about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.