On this episode of Big Blend Radio's Author's Show with Books Forward, writer and author J. Lawrence Matthews discusses his new novel, “One Must Tell The Bees: Abraham Lincoln and The Final Education of Sherlock Holmes.” This evocative tale through time transports Sherlock Holmes to America to meet Lincoln during the Civil War.

It begins in 1918 in the English countryside where the world’s greatest detective has retired to tend his bees and write his memoirs — memoirs that reveal the full story of his journey to America, first as a junior chemist at the DuPont gunpowder works in Wilmington, then as a companion for young Tad Lincoln on what turns out to be the evening of President Lincoln’s assassination — and finally as an unsung participant in the electrifying manhunt for the assassin, John Wilkes Booth. It is Holmes’s very first case. But, as "One Must Tell The Bees" reveals, it is nothing like his final education …

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