In the past, our detective Sherlock Holmes always complained that Watson's writing about solving crimes was too much like writing novels.

This time, the retired detective personally told a more fascinating case of 22 Baker Street1B.

There are countless writers who wrote Sherlock Holmes, but Mickey Colin's "Mind Tricks" really wrote the soul track of a generation of famous detectives at the end of their lives. Published120th week after the birth of Sherlock Holmes, this novel re-depicts the twilight of Sherlock Holmes, the most popular detective in literary history, after his glorious life. Beautiful words and feelings, comparable to "English Lover" and "The Long Day Will Come to an End", won a four-and-a-half-star high rating from Amazon online bookstore readers.

Sherlock Holmes in the story is 93 years old, weak and sometimes forgetful, but he still has keen insight. The novel was written by 1947. At the invitation of Japanese friend Mayaki, Holmes went to Hiroshima to look for wild peppers that can prolong life. However, Mayaki's motives are not simple. Holmes returned to the English countryside, became unforgettable friends with Roger, the housekeeper's son, and taught him his knowledge about bees. Roger is also an admirer of Sherlock Holmes, and he is particularly curious about his case-handling career. When the detective was away, he sneaked into the attic study and found an unfinished manuscript that recorded the case of the glass violinist many years ago. It was the first time that Holmes wrote a record case.

From the ruins of Hiroshima, to the Portman Bookstore in London, and then to the apiary in Country Six, three time-space intertwined mysteries make up a fascinating novel. This generation of famous detectives not only handle other people's cases, but also handle their own cases. At the same time, they are trying to retain their keen mental abilities in the past, but now they are gradually declining. This clever and wise work not only re-imagines a classic character, but also deeply reflects on the defects of memory, and at the same time shows that our view of the world will definitely change with age.

Imitation of Sherlock Holmes

The so-called imitation of Sherlock Holmes refers to the creation of non-Conan Doyle writers with the same story characters and time and space background as Conan Doyle's mystery novel Sherlock Holmes, that is, the latest stories of other writers with19th century London as the background and Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as the main axis.

Most writers who imitate Sherlock Holmes have two purposes. The first is to challenge the classics. Sherlock Holmes, written by arthur conan doyle, was talked about by people, which initiated the golden age of classical mystery novels. Therefore, Sherlock Holmes has become the imitation object of many younger generations. Secondly, as a master of mystery novels, many future generations naturally hope to pay tribute to the master by continuing to write the story of Sherlock Holmes.

Readers also hope that Sherlock Holmes' imitation can temporarily satisfy their appetite, especially between the last case and the return story. In the last case, Conan Doyle arranged the mutual destruction of Sherlock Holmes and Professor James moriarty, which ended the story and aroused great response and dissatisfaction from readers. Therefore, before returning to the story, some writers filled this vacuum in the name of imitating Sherlock Holmes. Later, Conan Doyle officially bid farewell to Sherlock Holmes' detective career and began to enjoy beekeeping, imitating Sherlock Holmes' behavior and reappearing, represented by Mickey Colin's "Mind Tricks".