Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg

Author:Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg [Resnick, Mike & Greenberg, Martin H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

A STUDY IN SUSSEX by Leah A. Zeldes

It had been some years since I had last seen my old friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. He had retired down to Sussex to keep bees more than thirty years before, and our paths seldom crossed afterward.

At first he was greatly occupied with setting up his farm, and with his researches for his Practical Handbook of Bee Culture. During the Great War, of course, I was busy with my medical practice, my junior, Dr. Verner, having gone to serve at the front, and it was several years thereafter before he was again fit to take up a full load.

Holmes, meanwhile, became more and more reclusive in his habits, seldom leaving his lonely South Downs estate. An occasional weekend visit was the most that I ever saw of him.

In the decade since my own retirement, I had been greatly troubled by rheumatism in my shoulder and leg, where I was wounded during my service in Afghanistan, and had been content to spend my time reading quietly by my hearthside. I wrote to Holmes now and then, and received characteristically terse replies, to the effect that he too was troubled by the scourge of aged joints, but I feared that barring that one trait in common, we had greatly drifted away from each other.

It was, then, with some surprise that I received a telegram from Holmes last Wednesday:

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