Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein's Daughter (Symonds)

Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein's Daughter 
Tim Symonds, 2014
MX Publishing
206 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781780925721


Summary
In 1986 Einstein’s first son, Hans Albert Einstein, investigated an old shoebox tucked away on the top shelf of a wardrobe. It contained several dozen yellowed letters in German type, exchanges between Albert and Mileva. Italian, Swiss, German and Austro-Hungarian postmarks reflected their peripatetic life. Letters dated between early 1901 and 1903 mention a daughter they refer to as Lieserl. After September 1903 her name never appears again, anywhere.

Lieserl remains a subject of mystery and speculation. Researchers regularly trek to Serbia to conduct investigations. They comb through registries, synagogues, church and monastery archives throughout the Vojvodina region, the place of her birth and short life, but to no avail.

In The Mystery of Einstein’s Daughter Holmes exclaims, ‘the most ruthless effort has been made by public officials, priests, monks, friends, family and relatives by marriage, to seek out and destroy every document with Lieserl’s name on it. The question is—why? (From the publisher.)