A review by hpuphd
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin

5.0

Chapter 18 is my favorite—the scene in which Holmes, the cold, reasoning machine at age 93, goes to a lonely place near his apiary where he reflects on the loss of people close to him. A charming and mellow novel about the master detective in 1947, frail and alone, and how if we live long enough we have to accommodate the loss of our vitality and sharpness and the inevitability of the finish of life. His visit to Hiroshima brings out how the aged look around and find themselves in a world they don’t recognize anymore. Movingly written.