The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife: The Origins of Sherlock Holmes, World's Greatest Consulting Detective (The Early Case Files of Sherlock Holmes Book 1)

Summary

First-place winner of the 2019 CIBA Mystery and Mayhem award. Arthur Conan Doyle provided few details on Holmes' boyhood. His ancestors were country squires, his grandmother was the sister of the French artist Vernet, and he had a brother named Mycroft - seven years his senior. Recently, a cache of documents has been discovered detailing, in Sherlock's own hand, his early forays into criminal investigation. Only weeks into his first year at Eton, Sherlock's father calls his brother and him back ...