The District Messenger Says: "The Crack in the Lens ... Tells an Engrossing Story"

MORRISON, CO, March 22, 2011 (Press-News.org) Roger Johnson, editor of the District Messenger, the Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, writes: "The Crack in the Lens by Darlene A Cypser... tells an engrossing story of the boy Holmes and at the same time explores the reasons why the man Holmes turned out as he did - a brilliant, unconventional, and apparently emotionless righter of wrongs." In this account Mycroft, Sherrinford and Sherlock are the sons of Squire Siger Holmes of Mycroft Manor in Yorkshire, where Sherlock is educated by a private tutor, Professor James Moriarty. These inventions of William Baring-Gould ... make a colourful and appropriately atmospheric basis for a tale that seems to owe as much to Emily Bronte as to Arthur Conan Doyle.

In this dramatic novel, author Darlene A. Cypser suggests that is may have been a traumatic experience in his late teens that not only led Sherlock Holmes to become a detective but is responsible for many quirks in his behavior. Through her fictional accounts she proposes that what is now called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder may be at the heart of Holmes' moods and constant need for the work which he excelled at.

The Crack in the Lens is available in trade paperback book from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and a number of other sellers in the USA, UK, Australia, and Canada. It is also available in a growing list of brick and mortar book stores. Consult the website www.thecrackinthelens.com for the latest information on book sellers carrying the book. The ebook form was recently released on by BarnesandNoble.com for Nook and all other devices with a Nook Reader app.

Darlene became an avid follower of Sherlock Holmes when she was in high school and she attended some meetings of the Hudson Valley Sciontists in her teens. Since then she has corresponded with a number of Sherlockians around the world and been a member of a number of Sherlockian groups including Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients and the Hounds of the Internet. She has recently become active on the Sherlock Holmes Social Network. Darlene's first contact with the Baker Street Irregulars was an exchange of correspondence with Dr. Julian Wolff in the 1970s and she wrote two "trifling monograms" which were published by the Baker Street Journal in the mid-1980s when Philip Shreffler was the editor. She is writing a sequel trilogy which follows Sherlock Holmes through his years at the university and into his early career before meeting Dr. Watson.

Darlene is also in the midst of producing a movie set in 18th century England based on Alfred Noyes' famous poem, The Highwayman. Additional information about the movie can be found at www.thehighwaymanmovie.com.