Many of us geeky guys were Sherlock Holmes fans in our youth. I must have read all the stories five times, and still reread one now and then. The mysteries weren't the point; Sherlock was.
This is a wonderfull book. It is told in the first person by an awkward, unhappy, hostile 15 year old girl who, in the midst of WWI, literally stumbles upon a beekeeper retired detective in the fields of Sussex.