TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cullin,Mitch
TI  - A slight trick of the mind: a novel 
SN  - 9781782113300
AV  - PS3553.U319 S55 2005
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Canongate
KW  - Older men
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Pbk edition published as: Mr Holmes
N2  - "Sherlock Holmes - "a genius in whom scientific curiosity is raised to the status of heroic passion" - is famous for his powers of deduction. His world is made up of hard evidence and incontestable facts, his observations and conclusions unsullied by personal feelings, until novelist Cullin goes behind the cold, unsentimental surface to reveal for the first time the inner world of an obsessively private man." "It is 1947, and the long-retired Holmes, now ninety-three, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse, where his memories and intellect begin to go adrift. He lives with a housekeeper and her young son, Roger, whose patient, respectful demeanor stirs paternal affection in Holmes. Holmes has settled into the routine of tending his apiary, writing in journals, and grappling with the diminishing powers of his razor-sharp mind, when Roger comes upon a case hitherto unknown. It is that of a Mrs. Keller, the long-ago object of Holmes's deep - and never acknowledged - infatuation."--BOOK JACKET
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