The Eye of the Crow

by Shane Peacock
Genre: Mystery

It is the spring of 1867, and a yellow fog hangs over London. In the dead of night, a woman is brutally stabbed and left to die in a pool of blood. No one sees the terrible crime. Or so it seems.

Nearby, a brilliant, bitter boy dreams of a better life. He is the son a Jewish intellectual and a highborn lady – social outcasts – impoverishment the cost of their mixed marriage. The boy’s name is Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock comes face to face with the young Arab wrongly accused of the crime. This puts him squarely on a path to becoming a complex man with a dark past – and the world’s greatest detective. ~from the book jacket