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Review of "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein's Daughter"

After reading my review, make sure you scroll down to the contest entry! In Tim Symonds's Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein's Daughter , we are treated to a mystery wherein the great detective is asked to look into the past of the up-and-coming physicist, Albert Einstein. This is a book for nerds, both for Einstein nerds and Sherlock Holmes nerds. It is chock-full of inside references and history. Those already savvy in the lives of the historic and fictional characters involved will really get them, while others might feel a little lost. I am both an Einstein and a Holmes nerd, so I appreciated most of these references and allusions. This book is extensively well researched, as the end notes and acknowledgements show. The tone and characters fit right along with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's canon, as well as those who have come between him and Tim Symonds. The author also gives us a deeper grounding into Watson's point of view than Doyle would have, which p...
Another adventure brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson face to face with Albert Einstein SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF EINSTEIN'S DAUGHTER Tim Symonds Genre: Mystery Publisher: MX Publishing Publication Date: January 13, 2014 Add to Goodreads The Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson it seems a very humdrum commission - but who is the mysterious 'Lieserl'? How does her existence threaten the ambitions of the technical assistant level III in Room 86 at the Federal Patents Office in Berne by the name of Albert Einstein? The assignment plunges Holmes and Watson into unfathomable Serbia to solve one of the intractable mysteries of the 20th Century. In Tim Symonds' previous detective novels, Sherlock Holmes and the Dead Boer At Scotney Castle and Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of The Bulgarian Codex the author based pivotal historic facts and a principal character on r...