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: Black Ice escape from Wormesley. Sherlock and Stone reach the building where Mycroft and Count Shuvalov are located. Once there, they lure away the falcon trained to kill Shuvalov. Sherlock Holmes has grown since the events of his previous two adventures, and he is not afraid to do things on his own initiative. When he realizes that Amyus will not be accompanying him to Russia he is initially disappointed and worried how he will perform without his mentor, but soon grows in confidence. His relationship with Rufus Stone becomes more complex when Mycroft reveals a secret about Stone. His admiration for his