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...
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