Mycroft and Sherlock, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

London 1872; young Sherlock Holmes is driving his brother Mycroft to distraction. He has developed an interest in macabre crimes, like the series of unsolved murders currently plaguing the capital. Mycroft tries to distract him, but the older Holmes soon finds himself investigating the same case as Sherlock from a different angle. Only problem is that neither Holmes will communicate with the other and their failure to pool their considerable resources is going to get one of them killed. Abdul-Jabbar’s characters leap off the page, a cracking good read.