A Study in Treason: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery

The game is afoot in Goldberg’s lovingly crafted sequel to 2017’s The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes. On the eve of WWI, Sir Harold Whitlock, First Sea Lord, asks Joanna Blalock, daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, for help in finding a sensitive document that has disappeared from a locked room on the foreign secretary’s estate. The police suspect the butler’s son and the German-born groundskeeper of colluding to sell the document to the Germans, but a careful examination of the clues leads Joanna to conclude otherwise. In Goldberg’s telling, Holmes died in 1903, and Joanna is married to John Watson Jr., M.D., the son of Holmes’s original sidekick, Dr. Watson, who’s still around to point out the similarities between Joanna and her late detective father. Avid Sherlockians will be delighted by the many echoes of the original Holmes canon, from the dog who did not bark to Joanna’s unlikely disguises and knack for martial arts. [em]Agent: Scott Mendel, Mendel Media Group. (June) [/em]