One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes
(By J. Lawrence Matthews)
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When those harrowing words ring out during a children’s entertainment in Washington, D.C. the evening of Friday, April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young English chemist named Holmes grabs Tad Lincoln, the 12 year-old son of the dying President and races the boy out the theater and into a city convulsed by the shooting of the man known as the Great Emancipator—and soon finds himself on the hunt for John Wilkes Booth.
This is the extraordinary untold story of how that young chemist and a freed slave boy named Abraham tracked Booth through backwoods Maryland and across the Potomac River to the tobacco barn where Booth died.
It is the very first case of the detective we now know as Sherlock Holmes.
And as we learn in One Must Tell the Bees, it is nothing like his last…”
