One of the better Sherlock Holmes spinoffs.
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (1994) is the first book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. It was nominated for the Agatha best novel award
Sherlock Holmes is well retired at age- 54 in 1915. Keeping bees and studying everything in rural Sussex Downs.
A 15-year-old Jewish-American wonder child — Mary Russell — bumps into the old man in the woods — and the two quickly become odd friends.
Mary becomes a worthy apprentice. Then enters Oxford University in the autumn of 1917.
The book is a series of adventures NOT written up by John Watson.
Click PLAY or watch the author introduce the book on YouTube.
Rick McCharles 