Sherlock and the Time Machine (2020) by C.J. Luton
GoodReads meta-data is pages (not stated) rated 4.22 by 9 litizens.
Genre: Sherlockiana.
Verdict: intriguing, but….
It starts as charming pastiche when a young and uncertain H.G. Wells (who surely was never uncertain) with an even younger Albert Einstein in tow arrive at 221B Baker Street with the news that ‘The Time Machine’ (1895) was fact not fiction. Einstein explains the space-time continuum with a rubber band and a handkerchief (but not to me).
There follows one of the most convoluted plots I have ever encountered. I got lost, stayed lost, and gave up hope, and after Wells and Einstein dropped out of the frame all too soon, I also lost a great deal of interest. In the end, either I did not get the resolution or there wasn’t one. Yes, I know the villain was thwarted and slain but what his purpose was and what did the time machine have to do with any of it? Unknown to this reader.
Whatever the point was it escaped this reader.
On some websites it is listed as the second and in others the fourth in a series.
Over to you.