A clever idea cunningly executed, and a welcome addition to the library of every Holmes fan. "The Independent" He has been called a genius and a fraud, a hero and an addict. He advised kings in their glittering palaces, then disappeared into the darkest alleys of London s criminal underworld. He was (and remains) a global icon, but who was this Sherlock Holmes? With an attention to detail that would make his subject envious, Nick Rennison gathers the clues of a life lived among the stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Oscar Wilde to Sigmund Freud, and uncovers...
A clever idea cunningly executed, and a welcome addition to the library of every Holmes fan. "The Independent" He has been called a genius and a fr...