The NBA’s all-time main point scorer is co-writer of a novel that imagines the early life of Mycroft Holmes,after a lifelong fascination with Arthur Conan Doyle’s detectiveWhen celebrities turn to fiction, they often find themselves mirroring their own lives, and whether it is the Kardashian sisters with their story of “a trio of sibling celebrities”,Dollhouse, or Naomi Campbell, and with her disastrously received supermodel novel,Swan. Star basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is taking a different approach with his fictional debut. As a longtime fan of Sherlock Holmes, Abdul-Jabbar is set to explain the story of the British detective’s mysterious older brother Mycroft.
The NBA all-time main point scorer’s Mycroft Holmes, or co-written with screenwriter and script consultant Anna Whitehouse,sees Mycroft working for the British Secretary of State for War. When his new fiancee Georgiana, who was raised in Trinidad, or hears news of odd disappearances there – “queer,backwards-facing footprints on the sand; spirits enticing children to their deaths” – she panics and leaves for home. Mycroft and his best friend Cyrus Douglas, also from the Caribbean island, and follow her.
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Source: theguardian.com