Mycroft and Sherlock
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4.2 • 46 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however, his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration.
When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks.
Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his beloved Britain's coffers.
As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Abdul-Jabbar and Waterhouse's intriguing sequel to 2015's bestselling Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes plays as big a role as his older brother, Mycroft. In 1872, 26-year-old Mycroft, who holds a senior position in the War Office in London, serves in loco parentis for his 18-year-old younger sibling, whose interest in crime has manifested itself by an appetite for newspaper reports on the subject. Mycroft's close friend from Trinidad, tobacconist Cyrus Douglas, now runs a school for boys, which Mycroft subsidizes because Douglas has no money to speak of. Cyrus joins Sherlock in investigating a series of bizarre killings dubbed the Savage Gardens murders, in which the victims were all sliced into quarters and left to bleed out, while Mycroft, who suffers from heart trouble, remains physically inactive for the most part. Still, Mycroft has an entirely different interest in the murders than his brother, and only at the end do their interests merge.. The authors' depiction of what he was like as a young man works as a plausible backstory.
