It was some time before Sherlock Holmes recovered from the events of late 1871. Physically, it took many months; mentally, it took many years. He was bound by both a promise to the living and a commitment to honour the dead, and being so bound he set the full force of his will to rebuilding the shattered pieces of his life. Yet sometimes will alone is not enough. Part I of The Consulting Detective Trilogy, follows 18 year old Sherlock Holmes from the end of The Crack in the Lens through his university career. It tells the story of his mental and emotional journey to his decision to become a detective as well his early cases and training.
In late 1876 Sherlock Holmes returns to London to begin his career as a detective. Within weeks he solves the murder of the manager of a theatrical company and exposes corruption within Scotland Yard. However, he gets little credit for either and has difficulty attracting new clients. He spends his time improving his many skills and solving cases for the challenge. In time clients come. Follow Sherlock Holmes as he searches for the criminals behind the Turf Fraud, hunts down the Blackheath Burglar, finds the Opal Tiara, discovers the hidden meaning in the Musgrave Ritual, finds out the secret of the Aluminum Crutch, and stops the Giant Rat of Sumatra from reaching England. Plus many more cases before he meets his friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.
Disowned by his father and sent down by his college, a penniless Sherlock Holmes seeks refuge with his brother Mycroft in London. Soon a fellow student introduces him to a mysterious world of magic and deception which will teach him skills he will use throughout his detective career -- the world of the theater. Kidnappers and a murderous attack at the stage door in London, police corruption in New York, train robbers in Nebraska, and hoodlums and shanghaiers in San Francisco are among the many challenges young Sherlock Holmes faces.
If someone had asked Sherlock Holmes later in the year, there is little doubt that he would have said his life began that spring day in 1871 when he met Violet Rushdale upon the moors and ended in the winter some months distant. His mother would have disputed the former claim, and many, both friend and foe, would come to deny the latter. Yet what happened that year nearly cost him his life and his sanity, and strongly influenced the man he was to become.It is well known that the toughest steel that makes the sharpest swords must be plunged into the fire, then beaten and reshaped. So it is as well with the best and wisest of men.
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