Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery Of Einstein's Daughter

Preliminaries by Dr. John H. Watson

The events I relate in The Mystery of Einstein’s Daughter took place well into the reign of King Edward the Seventh, the year in which the Simplon Tunnel was driven through the Alps and when Charles Perrine discovered Jupiter’s seventh satellite, Elara. Across the Atlantic, Theodore Roosevelt began his first full term as President, after his second inauguration. In England there was talk of a new Automobile Association employing cycle scouts to help unwary motorists avoid police speed traps. In faraway South Africa, Thomas Evan Powell brought the Cullinan to the surface, the world’s largest rough diamond.

In the spring of that year, my comrade Sherlock Holmes undertook an investigation into what at first appeared to be a very humdrum matter concerning a recent graduate of the Physics Department of a Swiss Polytechnikum. The young man’s name was Albert Einstein. He was soon to become the world’s most revered scientist, gaining fame and respect the equal of, or greater, than Presidents and Prime Ministers.

Sherlock Holmes held Albert Einstein’s future in his hands.

Dr John H. Watson

Junior United Service Club

London