The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg
This is the first in a series, and I've looked at it for a while and finally bought it a few months ago. I have to say Sherlock Holmes novels always make me feel like I'm just not that observant. It's like a test on every page! And this mystery was no different. It's 1914. Sherlock Holmes has recently died, and Watson is an elderly retired physician, lost in the memories of all the cases he and Holmes solved in their glory days. Now Watson's son, John Jr. (a physician) makes sure his father is taken care of at 221b Baker Street, the same apartment where Holmes lived. A woman visits, asking for Watson's help. Her brother has recently died--jumped from a window to his death. She, however, doesn't believe it was a suicide, and asks for help to clear her brother's name. Two witnesses to the death--a young mother and her son, turn out to be Joanna and Johnnie Blalock. Joanna is Holmes' daughter, the product of a one night affair between Holmes and...