Mystery Readers Book Group

Mycroft & Sherlock Holmes / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes, has no interest in the killings; however, his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies.  When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery.  As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences.