In this new unauthorised biography, Nick Rennison challenges the pevious account of Sherlock Holmes by Dr John Watson to present a brilliant portrait of the man behind the magnifying glass.
Sherlock Holmes blends what we already know of the great sleuth’s career with carefully documented social history to answer the questions admirers have long puzzled over. It was Holmes’s elder brother who drew him into unofficial work for the British government, and Renninson reveals how this led directly to the detective…
