So this is an interesting idea for a mystery novel. Anyone who’s been paying attention can name at least 5 characters that wouldn’t be possible without Holmes. The character is massively important to the history of mystery fiction, and has obviously been incredibly influential to everything from books to TV to movies. The idea of Holmes far outlives and outweighs Doyle’s lackluster storytelling. But what a character that Doyle managed to come up with. I think a lot of what we associate with Sherlock Holmes now has been added later, filled in by movie- and show-runners and writers. Masculine in the old-school, totally ridiculous definition. I suppose I mean that there isn’t much in the way of character development or emotion. No idea why, since I don’t find the original texts to be that good, personally. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem.I probably picked up this book because I am increasingly obsessed with anything Sherlock Holmes. In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off.
Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal-private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society-the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history-and a vast fortune. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America-from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian
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