Paperback edition of Mitch Cullin's novel to tie in with Bill Condon's film starring Ian McKellen, released 2015

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING IAN McKELLEN

It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind.

But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking - about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.


Previously published as A Slight Trick of The Mind.

"Sherlock Holmes as you've never seen him before" - * Telegraph *

"Extremely touching" - * Independent *

"Beautiful . . . It's what a novel should be" - * Washington Post *

"A curious, unusual and wonderful novel" - * Scotsman *

"Original and surprising" - * Sunday Times *

"A wise and touching examination of the human condition" - * Los Angeles Times Book Review *

"Cullin is an unusually sophisticated theorist of human nature . . . Beautiful" - * New York Times Book Review *

"Wonderfully written and heartbreaking" - * San Francisco Chronicle *

"Quite extraordinary . . . Our hero-our eternal hero-has never been more heroic, or more human" - * Village Voice *

"This is literary crime fiction at its best" - * Good Housekeeping *

"A meandering, unobtrusively mystical meditation on the oddities of human nature" - * Weekly Telegraph *