The amazing Mycroft mysteries Book

The Amazing Mycroft Mysteries is a complete collection of these three superb stories: A Taste for Honey, Reply Paid, and The Notched Hairpin. from front dust jacket: Just about every mystery buff who knows Sherlock Holmes has heard of Holme's older brother, Mycroft. Sherlock, a man not given to compliments or to exaggerations, proclaimed brother Mycroft his superior and "the most indispensable man in the country," adding, "Again and again I have taken a problem to him and have received an explanation which later proved to be the correct one." Mycroft Holmes was also quite a character, as the reader will discover in these three mysteries. He was one of the founders of the Diogenes Club, which Sherlock called "the queerest club ... It contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion." Mycroft Holmes's brilliance and mental wizadry, only hinted at in the Sherlock Holmes canon, are the starting points for the three exceptional mysteries collected in this triple-decker. Themselves classics and virtually impossible to find today in any edition, they are subtle and tantalizing examples of mystery writing. The Amazing Mycroft Mysteries is a complete collection of these superb stories: A Taste for Honey, Reply Paid, and The Notched Hairpin.