Sherlock Holmes is a government official. Mycroft has a unique civil service position as a kind of human database for all aspects of government policy. He lacks Sherlock's interest in physical investigation, however, preferring to spend his time at the Diogenes Club. Holmes says that he first developed his methods of deduction as an undergraduate; his earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students. A meeting with a classmate's father led him to adopt detection as a profession, and he spent several years after university as a consultant before financial difficulties led him to accept John H.
Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech that the conspirators plan to invade Canada and have it become the Confederate stronghold—a plan which Sherlock is determined to foil. Sherlock Holmes who has grown since the events of Death Cloud and is not afraid to do things on his own initiative. He has formed close friendships with Amyus, Matty and Virginia, and his admiration for his older brother Mycroft continues to increase. While travelling to America he meets an Irish violin player and tutor named Rufus Stone who begins to teach him how to play the violin, and although it seems Amyus disapproves of this relationship and finds