Mycroft Holmes (novel) The Apocalypse Handbook" in 2016 In 2018, Abdul-Jabbar, partnered again with Anna Waterhouse, authored "Mycroft and Sherlock". Mycroft Holmes (novel) Mycroft Holmes is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It involves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery early in his career as a government official. It is Abdul-Jabbar's first adult novel. Mycroft Holmes, secretary to Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell, and his best friend Cyrus Douglas learn of disturbing reports from Douglas' birthplace Trinidad; stories of children gone missing, Douen, and Lougarou. Holmes' fiancée,
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters actually a coded message that invited Sherlock to Eurus's room, allowing Sherlock to save his friend by making a genuinely emotional appeal to Eurus, giving her the love of an older brother and a form of relationship he'd denied her as a child, which convinces her to stand down. She is returned to incarceration, with Mycroft describing her as reduced to a catatonic state, although she responds in duet when Sherlock plays the violin near her cell. Mary Russell is a fictional character in a book series by Laurie R. King, focusing on the adventures of Russell and her mentor