A Slight Trick of the Mind

The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon.

It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.

Author: Mitch Cullin
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 05/09/2006
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781400078226
ISBN10: 1400078229
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural

About the Author

MITCH CULLIN is the author of ten books, including A Slight Trick of the Mind, Tideland, and Branches, a novel-in-verse. His fiction has been translated into over 20 languages. He currently lives near Los Angeles, where he is working as a photographer while also collaborating on various projects with Peter I. Chang. He can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mitchthecullin.