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In the summer of 2016, retired broadcaster Paul Ashton made a fantastic discovery at a car boot sales in Sussex. He found a duplicate of Sherlock Holmes's Sensible Handbook of Bee Culture, and got it for £2. No other duplicate of this famous volume - the sole book Holmes wrote - has ever come to light. The Handbook is the journal placed by Holmes from 1904 to 1912. 1904 was the year he retired from energetic investigation and transferred to a farmhouse in East Dean. In 1912 he arrived of old age and remaining East Dean to be able to outwit the German spy network in Britain on the eve of World Conflict I. The journal is, of course, principally the record of his bee-keeping activities, but Holmes has also included an abundance of astonishing information - some of it highly indiscreet - about the next:
- His matrimony to Mrs Hudson
- Their social life in Sussex
- His meetings with Lenin, Pablo Picasso, Edward VII, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and Sigmund Freud, among other distinguished characters
- Two investigations that he completed, even though officially retired
- Two makes an attempt which were made on his life
- His involvement in the Jack the Ripper murders, the Dr. Crippen affair, the fraud of the Mona Lisa, and the Siege of Sidney Road
- His correspondence with some of the famous scientists of the day
- His energetic support of the Suffragette activity
- The regular updating of his casebooks of famous bad guys of the 19th century
- A quantity of photographs, some considered by him and four actually displaying him
- The continuous deterioration of his health over the period.
