The Second World War has ended, but Conan Doyle's brilliant hero - the unrivaled Sherlock Holmes - is still alive. He is in his nineties and lives in Sussex, breeding bees. In search of a rare plant, rumored to prolong life, the great detective, despite his advanced age, goes to defeated Japan, which survived the atomic bombings. People still expect miracles from him: only he is able to explain to an elderly Japanese why and how his father disappeared in London half a century ago. Sherlock Holmes in Mitch Cullin's novel was and remains a god. No one knows that in the rationalist’s weakening memory, past and present, reality and fiction have long been intertwined into a bizarre pattern, forcing him to reconsider many of his previous views and remember his only love.