He enhanced the overall tale and listening was a pleasure.
Thomas Judd narrates and truly did a wonderful job of giving voice to both Watson and Sherlock. I couldn’t have asked for a better mystery for the holidays and will certainly listen to more of Matthews’ stories. The story was well written, capturing both characters and their friends. I don’t want to reveal too much, suffice is to say, I am not wholly convinced Sherlock wouldn’t have solved it quicker, but I throughly enjoyed his theories on a plot against the King and loved watching him and Dr. In fact, he suspects it means a threat to the newly crowned King of England. However, the wine has been replaced with sand and Sherlock is convinced something is afoot. Watson with a bottle of French Beaune after declining to attend Christmas dinner. It’s Christmas morning in 1901 at the residence of Sherlock Holmes on Baker Street. It is Holmes’s very first case.I am always on the lookout for different holiday reads/listens for the Ho-Ho-Ho readathon and was delighted to be offered a Sherlock Holmes Christmas Mystery. But, as One Must Tell The Bees reveals, it is nothing like his final education … It begins in 1918 in the English countryside where the world’s greatest detective has retired to tend his bees and write his memoirs - memoirs that reveal the full story of his journey to America, first as a junior chemist at the DuPont gunpowder works in Wilmington, then as a companion for young Tad Lincoln on what turns out to be the evening of President Lincoln’s assassination - and finally as an unsung participant in the electrifying manhunt for the assassin, John Wilkes Booth. This vivid, previously untold story takes place during a crucial period in history that Americans are once again seeking to understand-and may now see through the keen eyes of Sherlock Holmes, thanks to One Must Tell The Bees: The Final Education of Sherlock Holmes, (May 22, 2021, East Dean Press).
Lawrence Matthews invites readers on a remarkable journey with a precocious young chemist named Holmes from the streets of London to Washington D.C.
***Please note this is an ARC and may contain typos or errors that will be corrected in the final, published edition of the book***Īuthor J.
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