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Mycroft Holmes: Book 1 of 3: MYCROFT HOLMES

de Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anna Waterhouse,

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"When I say, therefore, that [my brother] has better powers of observation than I...I am speaking the exact and literal truth." (Sherlock Holmes)

This story occurs when Mycroft, an athletic Cambridge graduate, assists the secretary of State. He becomes embroiled in a mystery in Trinidad based on actual history.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a huge Holmesian, seven-foot-two tall, basketball's all-time leading scorer, and a US cultural ambassador. Anna Waterhouse is a professional screenwriter and script consultant.

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El Nov 17 2015, Pkentjones dijo:
This book tells of an adventure of Mycroft Holmes during his early years of Service to The Crown. It presents fans of Sherlock Holmes with a new vision of Mycroft and Sherlock at a time in their lives that we have not seen before. Mycroft is young and idealistic, hoping that he will prove worthy of the trust put in him by the Government and Crown he feels represent the world of order and civilization. Sherlock is young, surly and impatient, straining to find an outlet for his energy and talents.

The story unfolds as an increasingly complex mystery. Readers are introduced to Mycroft who is engaged to the daughter of a Trinidad Plantation owner attending college in London. One of Mycroft’s friends is a half-caste black East-Indian from Trinidad who works at a Tobacco shop. This friend tells Mycroft of a recurrence of attacks on children in Trinidad by supernatural Lougarou, giant mosquito-like creatures who suck the blood from children. Word of this reaches Mycroft’s fiancée and she becomes determined to return home to deal with the situation, so Mycroft informs his superior of “tensions” in Trinidad and maneuvers him into sending Mycroft to investigate.

Mycroft and his Trinidadian friend, acting as Mycroft’s manservant, catch the first boat for Trinidad and the mysteries begin. Mycroft’s fiancée is not on board the only boat heading to Port of Spain. As the mystery becomes more complex, so also does the world Mycroft has entered. The “black” Trinidad Mycroft anticipated becomes, first “yellow” with the addition of a growing Chinese community and then “brown” with the burgeoning East Indian population. Add European “financiers” and Southern American “investors” and the pot becomes more and more confusing. This Mycroft is fully as astute as will be his later younger brother, but he is far less accustomed to giving explanations of his inferences. His companion has to rein Mycroft in frequently in order to demand explanations of things Mycroft feels are obvious.

The world in which this tale occurs is odd to 21st Century readers. China is recovering from the Opium Wars and trying to gain her footing after being raped by European business interests. Japan is undergoing the fall of the Samurai Bakafu warlords to the Meiji Restoration and the United States is recuperating from the American Civil war. This is the time of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the Carpetbaggers with ten years yet to go before the Gunfight at the OK Corral. In Europe, it is “business as usual” in the post-Napoleonic world. The Nobility continue to oppress and rob the peasants and France is the major Continental Power. England sees the rise of Prussia as an antidote to French arrogance and Russia slumbers in the face of growing protests by everyone. Italy and Germany are dreams of the next Century while Turkey dominates the Balkans.

This is the stage setting for a mystery that deepens and deepens as we watch while characters shift and fade and transform. It becomes a question of who is conning whom and all the while, Mycroft suffers and observes. In the end, we see a more familiar Mycroft and “justice” triumphs, but the cost is high and the future remains in doubt. This is a well-written and intriguing mystery with very few “Americanisms” and better grammar than I, a confirmed nitpicker, can write. It was a very pleasant surprise, a real sleeper.

Reviewed by: Philip K. Jones, November, 2015

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Librería
Lemolo Books US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
312
Título
Mycroft Holmes
Autor
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anna Waterhouse,
Formato/Encuadernación
New book but shelf ware
Estado del libro
Usado
Cantidad disponible
1
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10
1785658077
ISBN 13
9781785658075
Editorial
titan books
Fecha de publicación
2018
Páginas
337
Palabras clave
mystery, sherlock homes,
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