Over 400 pages into the Complete Sherlock Holmes and we finally meet his big brother Mycroft in The Greek Interpreter.
Older than Sherlock, a better observer and a cleverer deducer. Can it be possible? So why isn't he a great detective? Because he doesn't have the energy for it. OK. He does the government's accounts instead... or something.
I wonder if that's it for Mycroft. Or will we see him in another case? Gripping stuff.
There's also only one more short story now until The Final Problem and we haven't heard a peep about Moriarty yet. I'm surprised. Conan Doyle didn't quite build up his collection of characters as I expected. Assuming this collection has the stories in the order they were published.
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