Cypser, Darlene:

Darlene Cypser’s The Crack in the Lens explores the seventeen-year-old Sherlock Holmes and the man he is to become. She makes Sherlock the younger brother of both Mycroft and Sherrinford Holmes and places him in the Holmes estate in Yorkshire where he falls in love with Violet Rushdale, but his hopes are ruined by the introduction of a certain maths professor. Cypser’s bold move is not to make this a classic Holmes mystery but a coming of age book that examines the basis for the Holmes’ character we know. Click here to find all articles about Darlene Cypser.