"Why'd she come here? Why'd she come to you?"

A cloud passed over the sun, casting a long shadow across the gardens.

"Hope, I suspect," said Holmes. "It seems I am known for discovering answers when events appear desperate."

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It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind.

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But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.