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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Engelmann0571370977|title=The Stockholm Octavo|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bachelor's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel he's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that there's a deadline for the wedding. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo', a fortuneLock-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who will ensure his success. However, not all goes to plan as, over the eight nights it takes to complete the Octavo, it becomes apparent that the prediction isn't for Emil's future, but has become an Octavo to save the whole of Sweden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUp|author=Bruce Macbain|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)John Banville
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isnIt't s six months since the most popular person dramatic events which we read about in Rome. He may be a high ranking politician with the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a spy, ambitious [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa Dr Quirke is discovered, unceremoniously now back in Dublin and repeatedly stabbed in living (if somewhat uneasily) with his well-guarded bedroomdaughter, there are many who sigh with reliefPhoebe. However, the murderer must still be found The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny this has made the Younger as history will dub him) to investigatealready strained relationship between them more difficult. Pliny isnThey't a natural but reluctantly takes on the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that the culprit must be found before re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the end body of the Roman Gamesa young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, giving Pliny 15 daysis found in a lock-up. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cultsAt first, prostitution and other things he wasnit looked as though she't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poetd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337968|title=Vices In Place of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to full detective, start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and continues her job will be to solve cases help patients with his usual mix of dogged determination and flairthose non-medical problems which affect their health. Toronto at the end The hardest part of the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between job will be to persuade people that the rich services she offers really are free and the poor, and the fact that many they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the latter group are utterly destitute leads to all manner problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of crimes, great and smallher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr057136358X|title=Fell the Angels|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman April in the late nineteenth century. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer with a drink problem. A woman's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her to go back to him could be problematical. As a compromise she was sent to Malvern to take a water cure and it was there that she came into contact with Dr James Gully. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on Cecilia's part (probably the most of which she was capable) and love on his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpain|author=Graeme Kent|title=One BloodJohn Banville|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sergeant Kella is being sent from Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his native Malaita job, something which occurred to another part him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage therelittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. In the same district, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control He was spending a lot of a mission time with three elderly sisters living there Percy Antrobus - who are rather set in their ways, to say couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the least. Then purpose of a body turns up swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the church… is this related to the sabotage''morning''? And how does It was after Percy's death that he saw the wartime history benefits of John F Kennedy, vying to become the new President of the USA, fit taking up a job in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>Spain.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LongB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Murders The Mystery of London: In the steps of the capital's killers Healing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=While the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal We meet Solon in one case Pergamon in depth, there’s always room the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for another title at the other end amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the spectrumcharge hands and when we first see them, dealing in brief they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with a variety of murders over the yearswild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529337925|title=Time and TideThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A ship is wrecked on It was the coast of 16th century ScotlandAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, the crew goneas so often happened, it was cold enough to have the only man on board dying fire lit and a windmill lashed Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to its deckkeep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. What happened? The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. What sort She was the publisher of illness does it carry? And, more importantly for a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the townlocal park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's people, who gets request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to keep warn the windmill? It's man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on solicitor to do the casesame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel StashowerB08LKT7HSR|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in a minor way, Murder in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdini.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4.5|genre=Crime Belltower (HistoricalA Miss Underhay Mystery)|summary=The fourth book in the series of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the others, in Toronto. Religion, money and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not to mention his love life, are played out against the sense of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the Dragon's Tail: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving for the fiancée who died over a year before. He busies himself, when he is not working, with training for the police sports' day, learning to dance, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges in the next-door room. She is a charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan James|title=Unsinkable|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=This year sees the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and several books, for both children and adults, are being published based on the story of the doomed ship. In this particular book the fact that we already know fate of the majority of the travellers adds a whole new level of tension to a story which is already an exciting thriller. Not only is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, and more crucially: will the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Siciliano|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Helena Dixon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the upper class revellers shockedGlass Bottle Public House. When, over Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the next few years, misfortune befalls several murder of the partyElowed and his half-goersbrother, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows thereDenzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmeslong search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. It Now she's a slightly different version of Holmes from determined that we've come to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless the man, is capable of feeling strongly responsible for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer her murder will be brought to the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>justice.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sax RohmerStephen Clarke|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuSpy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Dr Petrie This is surpriseda spoof spy story, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to Englandthat isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard it features a man is on the trail of Fu Manchucalled Ian Lemming, a Chinese doctor with 'who dresses well and 'likes the brains of any three men of genius'ladies'. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading who works for the East to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Except secret service, but in the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, and some planning side of things more than the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this categoryactive service. The Murdoch stories, however, come from Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a different anglefemale spy called Margaux, being placed (for and the most part) pair end up stranded in CanadaNormandy, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirit. Loyalty Margaux on a desperate mission to the Queen is as ardent here as back home unearth traitors in 'the old country'resistance network, but there is a rawness and a sense of space Lemming desperately trying to these novels which is due in large part to their setting.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Dickens0349423083|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Dr Watson is happy to be returning to Lyme RegisKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the woman Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he loves. He gets more than 'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he bargained for's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, thoughJames Lofthouse, as he is quickly embroiled in will be back from a series of killings which bear strange resemblances trip to Germany before long. James went to some of see what the cases he continental brewers were doing and Holmes have been involved inwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. The great detective joins him, with Lestrade following William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to assist in their investigations, and bring back a German bride but he'd like the trio realise that they are dealing with a haunting figure from their past..business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780921004</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ruffle0241433568|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd EditionEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Taking It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rare holiday on the Dorsetshire coast, Dr Watson manages rest and then he wants to persuade Sherlock Holmes talk to join himMegan and Henry about something serious. Delighted to spend time with Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his old friend Godfrey Jacobs, and charmed by widowed boarding guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house proprietor Mrs Heidler, so one of them must be the good doctor is set for a pleasant and relaxing stay – until mysterious events occur, pointing to an unimaginable evil, and the game’s afoot once more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920563</amazonuk>killer.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Park Bridges1473682401|title=My Dear WatsonThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=''My Dear Watson'' is written by Those who were with us at the hand end of Holmes, Lucy Holmes, whom the world came [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to know as SherlockMallory Dunnoch. Yes, the well-loved detective They're now married and Mallory is a female cross-dresser but with good reasonhaving twins. The young Lucy, having watched her mother die tragically, rushed off to live with When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Mycroft, at universityEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. In order to stay, undetected (no pun intended), she had to dress as a manThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Being slight Dandy and gamineher detective partner, this wasn’t difficult andAlec Osborne, after had not taken up the chance to look into a while, she preferred problem at the lifestyle. Watson hasn’t seen through the disguiseCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, continuing to live with Holmes between marriages as they combat but suddenly the odds and solve crimes in (or despite) possibility of being out of the policehouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Pleasures of MenHonjin Murders
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is a woman with burdensenough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. Living with her uncle For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in London’s East End during the reign 1930s. The oldest son of Queen Victoriaan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, hers although the whole affair is a life that seems empty really not as ostentatious as it might be – yet in fact is full of things she is trying to push awayhardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. Filling She only has an uncle representing her days has become a problemfamily, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, so when only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a series man missing parts of grisly murders beginshis fingers being in the neighbourhood, Catherine is drawn to and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the mystery time of the Man crime, this case has a lot of Crows in a way that seems bound to change her lifethe peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben PastorB07XLM3SM6|title=Liar MoonMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Near VeronaElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, northern ItalyKitty, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policemanin the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, known mainly because there was no evidence to have conducted previous murder investigationssuggest otherwise. He is asked Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look into after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the death mix of one Vittorio Lisiholidaymakers, a prominent local fascist who was run over boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in his wheelchair to keep an eye on his own estate by a car. The number one suspect is his widow Clarettathings ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry O'Hara0349423067|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In Transylvania|rating=3.5|genre=Crime Body on the Train (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=I normally start reviews with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania'. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, and so we may as well move straight on to the burning question – is it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D E Meredith|title=The Devil's RibbonFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In the London of 1858From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the Irish are the poorest of the poor, despised and feared by the English. They were forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to emigrate from their fatherland because Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the famine which decimated porters who was unloading the population, and now boxes discovered the majority body of them live in filthy, germ-ridden rookeries. Cholera is killing them off in their hundredsa man, stripped naked and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet with no means of their English masters, together with identification. those Irishmen who have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as the hottest summer on record drags Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on, and the tenth anniversary services of Kate Shackleton in the potato blight hope that her knowledge and its horrific consequences approach, the mood connections in Yorkshire would give them the slums is ripe for violence and murderlead they needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes - Over 400 Computer Generated Street Level Photos|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=Should I trust Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a book child and could not come to terms with the fact that has she was now a typo on the FRONT cover? woman experienced in dealing with murder. Would I purchase a book that practically says, as its first words, He was reluctant to give her all the e-book version is better than this paper thing? This, despite setting up very much the wrong impression, is a gateway into the world of Sherlock Holmes - but does, as I say, blatantly show itself up as flawed, while the electronic version could count as a very worthwhile app for information which the Conan Doyle buffpolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane1472127110|title=Young Sherlock HolmesIndian Summer: Fire Storma Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Post-Roman invasion Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and Great Britain shows secretly grieving for Jack, the signs of a beleagured nationlover who died before he could leave his wife. And straight away Hays gives us As time went by she found in herself an historical flavour - Saxonsability to solve crimes, Picts made friends including an ebullient and names such as 'Ambrosius Aurelianus' are mentioned early on determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the bookarms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890050</amazonuk>
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|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=After chasing his archNazi-enemy Moriarty without success on occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a cold night murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in November 1882this volume, Sherlock Holmes is left maimed which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and unable rushes to her best friend to walk without help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the use of a canelate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. DespondentIn this timeline, he decides to give up his career as a detective – but maverick agent is talked into taking an extra special caseback in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a Madame Giry comes across the Channel young family, except he was thought by all to beg his help with the mysterious 'ghost' which is terrorising have died in the Opera Populaire…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218703</amazonuk>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Bugge1786075431|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of IndiaMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Meet Zofia. A woman with socially climbing wife of a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a concert recital. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while charitable lady, and keen on an innocent holiday to the west countryher husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. A malformedIn 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murderedbut she knows it could always be better. There Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is only one person, who famously went over a certain Alpine waterfallnearing the city due to lack of hygiene, who could piece all this and more into a threat many people have to the Royalty fall on charity and Empire itselfalmshouses to keep a roof over their heads. But there is also only one personOne such was Mrs Mohr, who famously seemed although she was rich enough to have stayed dead keep private lodgings and staff in going over the same Alpine waterfall, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into playher charitable home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Jose Farmer|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It I say ''was''s World War One, and Britain for she has got wind of some brilliant scientific research, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out the worldvanished. Only due to Zofia's supply of sauerkraut. But a dastardly German has stolen the formula. Before he can give a variant based on boiled meathelp does she get found, cabbage dead and potatoes to in a place the kaiser, his most recent nemesis near- Sherlock Holmes, no less - must be brought out of beekeeping retirementlame woman could never reach by herself. Cue an adventure and Just who could be killing people in a halfcharity home, as he and Watson take to the skies for the first time in their hectic lives, what end up in darkest Africa, and encounter a certain yodelling, long-haired nobleman, more than up to the name of King of the Jungle...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=John Shakespeare: Prince|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This is the third in ? And why does Zofia feel the excellent Elizabethan murder mystery series, featuring John Shakespeare, brother of Will. An inexplicable murder is linked need to make a much deeper plot of political dimensions, leading Shakespeare into danger and tragedy. A series of bombings, which appear to be targeting the immigrant population causes huge unrest and fear, and leads to the uncovering of further political dimensions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544251</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Eleven year old Flavia A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the youngest daughter of shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the de Luce family child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and she doesn't get on the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that well era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with her elder sisters, Feely (Ophelia) the bizarre and Daffy (Daphne)the downright hideous. It could be rather lonely for her as her father And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is an eccentric stamp collector than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and her mother died in the Himalayas some ten years beforestout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she has smokes in her faithful bicyclepipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, Gladyswell, for company and when shelet's not doing some sleuthing shesay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's tinkering in her laboratory, where she has enough chemicals and poisons actually meant to give cure bronchial problems is by the modern-day Health and Safety person a heart attackby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752897152</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cassandra Clark|title=Abbess of Meaux: The Law of Angels|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A widow who remarried in the Middle Ages becameHer housemaid, once againbeing seven-foot-tall, subject to her husbandis also somewhat remarkable. And then, and many women of independent means preferredcourse, therefore, the greater financial freedom afforded by taking there's the veilghost. After the death of Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her husband Hildegard joins the Cisterciansinvestigation, one of the richest and most powerful groups in Europe at it's clear he has a soft spot for the time, and sets out to found a small convent near her childhood homedetermined young woman. Chance leads her to investigate the death of several men whose bodies she finds on her wayIf he really exists, and in each subsequent book in the series she finds herself yet again risking her life to investigate and solve crimesthat is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900942X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dinsdale0349414327|title=Three MilesA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Just to clear Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the confusion out of mental relaxation which she needs. When the waylocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, this book has nothing Kate was keen to take the opportunity to do with visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the novel deeds of the [[Death Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell|same name]] by Gladys Mitchellevent. Both take their name from an early Schubert piece What could be better than seeing her family, in which Death entices witnessing a momentous event and having the Maiden opportunity to leave take photographs of the world of men. setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? The maiden resistsNothing could go wrong. It was a common enough theme at the time: the death of beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053579</amazonuk>Or could it?
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