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A Study in Statecraft : The Memoirs of Mycroft Holmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearson, Orlando.
- Series:
- The Redacted Novels Series
- The Redacted Novels Series ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Luton, Bedfordshire : MX Publishing, Limited, 2023.
- Summary:
- Unearthed after being lost for nearly a century, at last the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes are available to the general public.Students and followers of his brother, the Great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, have to date only been offered two stories in which Mycroft Holmes appears and two in which he is mentioned. This publication of the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes after their sensational discovery in the summer of 2023 transforms our understanding of Sherlock Holmes's more intelligent elder brother.In this volume we see what it is when one extraordinarily talented person is the British Government as Mycroft Holmes applies his skills in statecraft to tax evasion, royal honours, Partygate, the 1918 Armistice, and the Abdication crisis of 1936.Mycroft Holmes was at his apogee in the time covered by these memoirs.Is it just chance that this time constituted the zenith of Britain's powers?.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Introduction
- A Study In Statecraft
- A Study in Statecraft
- Foreword
- Episode I: An Individual of High Net Worth
- Mycroft Holmes Opines
- An Individual of High Net Worth
- Afterword by Henry Durham
- Episode II: A Modern Odysseus
- Episode III: A Goat in the Government
- A Goat in the Government - Dr Watson Writes
- Episode IV: The Art of the Possible
- The Art of the Possible - Part 1
- The Art of the Possible - Part 2
- The Art of the Possible - Part 3
- Episode V: The Royal Bachelor
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Back Matter
- Also Available.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80424-279-9
- 1-80424-278-0
- OCLC:
- 1411311808
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