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One Must Tell the Bees
- Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
“What do you get when you cross Abraham Lincoln with Sherlock Holmes? The alchemy of creative genius. Matthews brings us to the intersection of history and fiction in this beautifully written epic full of unfathomable twists and turns. It’s elementary: this book is sensational.” (Jim Campbell, syndicated radio host and author of Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History)
“President Lincoln is assassinated in his private box at Ford’s!”
When those harrowing words ring out during a children’s entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs the 12-year-old son of the dying president, races the boy to safety, and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history.
One Must Tell the Bees is the untold story of Sherlock Holmes’ journey from the streets of London to the White House of Abraham Lincoln and, in company with a freed slave named after the dead president, their breathtaking pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. It is the very first case of the man who would become known to the world as Sherlock Holmes, and as listeners will discover, it will haunt him until his very last.
At a time when Western history is being reexamined and retold, old heroes cast aside and statues torn down, and even the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, “the Great Emancipator”, is questioned, One Must Tell the Bees is a timely reminder that our history deserves to be understood before it is entirely undone.
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- S. Smith
- 21-08-22
Wonderful
I loved every minute of this audiobook! The story, the deduction, and the narration. I was not concerned whether incidents were factual - I just listened and applauded at the end!
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- Jacqueline
- 11-08-22
An unexpected pleasure
This is a long listen and I wasn’t convinced I’d made a good choice but once started it was hard to put down. I really enjoyed it. Its a good Holmes pastiche and the American book within a book made it compelling. Some suspension of disbelief around elements of the plot were needed, but the same applies to the originals! Excellent narration helped things along.
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- Mrs Curzon Tussaud
- 10-01-23
Superlative Sherlock!
This is up in my top five Audible reads; a brilliant book coupled with superlative narration. The book fills in Holmes’ backstory with a trip to America where an introduction catapults him centre stage to the exciting conclusion of the Civil War.
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- Beria Elif Okcun
- 01-11-23
What a dissapointment
What This is anything but a Sherlok Holmes nobel. This is an American Civil War novel.I did not like it at all and am very dissaoointed. I will not recomend it to anybody. It is just a waste of time
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