In this short story, Holmes and Watson, with Mrs Hudson in tow, leave the capital following the death of Sherlock's brother Mycroft, to visit the family estate, where various dark secrets of the Holmes family emerge. I didn't think this was a good story. While the backdrop sounds suitably dramatic, it is not well written, and the dialogue didn't really feel true to the characters (though it was by no means the worst pastiche I have read in that respect). What Mycroft is supposed to have done in this story are inconsistent with his persona in the Doyle canon. ( )

Sorry but I did not care for this. ( )