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A Taste for Honey (American Mystery Classics) by H.F. Heard
A Taste for Honey (American Mystery Classics) by H.F. Heard
In a quiet village in the English countryside, Sydney Silchester lives a reclusive life led by two passions: privacy and honey, giving up the former only when his stores of the latter run low. But when his honey supplier is found stung to death by her hive, the search for a new beekeeper takes Sydney to Mr. Mycroft, a brilliant man who has retired to Sussex to take up precisely this occupation (and who shares many traits with the great detective, Sherlock Holmes). Upon hearing of the honey farmer's tragic death, Mycroft immediately senses the bloody hand of murder. After his own encounter with the deadly breed that killed her, the reluctant Silchester joins his new friend to uncover the diabolical mind behind it all.
Hailed by author, critic, and famed Sherlock Holmes scholar Christopher Morley as the only worthwhile continuation of the Holmes novels, A Taste for Honey is an engaging and terrifying mystery that proves enjoyable even to those with little to no knowledge of Arthur Conan Doyle's characters.
H.F. Heard (1889 - 1971) was an author of mystery and science fiction and a social historian and spiritual thinker (publishing nonfiction under the name Gerald Heard). His Mr. Mycroft character went on to star in two more novels.
AMERICAN MYSTERY CLASSICS, SOFTCOVER, 1941, 2019
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