The Holmes Boys: Sherlock and Mycroft

Very few clues exist in the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the childhood of Sherlock Holmes; nor that of his older, smarter brother Mycroft. Not even Dr. Watson is privy to such information. So secretive was the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes.

After the believed death of the famous detective, Josiah Cobbett, a reporter for The Guardian, begins the daunting task of discovering and documenting the childhood of Sherlock Holmes.

Cobbett discovers far more than he’d ever bargained f...