Mr. Holmes bees: Mitch Kallin

The Second World War ended, but the brilliant hero of Conan Doyle – the unsurpassed Sherlock Holmes – is still alive. He is ninety, he lives in Sussex, engaged in breeding bees. In the search for a rare plant, according to rumors prolonging life, the great detective, despite the advanced age, goes to the defeated, surviving atomic bombing of Japan.
People still expect miracles from him: only he is able to explain to the elderly Japanese, why and how his father disappeared in London half a century ago. Sherlock Holmes in Mitch Kallin’s novel was and remains God. No one is not aware that in the weakening memory of the rationalist, the past and present, reality and fiction have long been woven into a bizarre pattern, forcing him to revise many of his previous views and recall his only love.

Author
Kallin Mitch
Translator
Kharitonov Dmitry Vladimirovich
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Sherlock Holmes. The game continues
Genre
Modern foreign prose

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