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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross0571370977|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in the seriesDublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following the death The worst of his predecessor, grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of made the Roman forces at the Rhinealready strained relationship between them more difficult. HeThey's also been ordered to take Crispusre brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Constantine's son and heirRosa Jacobs, for the characteris found in a lock-building experienceup. That complicates matters At first, it looked as when Castus isnthough she't trying to keep Crispus alive, he's finding d gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it difficult to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endwas murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1529337968|title=FinisterreIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen too. As we travel through the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting cases. In fact thereIt's one July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Erle Stanley Gardner|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good start work as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening qualified medical almoner the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is following morning - on the essence of day that the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner NHS is a marvelborn. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond She'll be working for a Parrot|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a stepDr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-mother that her education really startedmedical problems which affect their health. That was the beginning The hardest part of the road job will be to discovery. The discovery persuade people that the services she can realise ghosts offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for others, that she can escape the cruelty them. Some of an alcoholic father and the discovery problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of the income and pleasure her body can generateown which might give her some insight. That, in turn, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulderHer marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S G Maclean057136358X|title=The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2April in Spain|author=John Banville

|summary=When Terry Tice was a dead monk is discovered walled into a disused monastery the local gossip is awash with remarks on the miracle hitman, although he didn't think of his well-preserved body all these years after the monastery was abandonedhimself in those terms. Investigator and Captain He saw what he did as ''a matter of Cromwellmaking things tidy''s guard Damian Seeker has other ideas. This is a recent non-clergy death. This is Carter Blyth, a man on such a secret mission that even Cromwell didnI couldn't know about it. This will add complications to resist the already convoluted and dangerous path thought that Seeker will take to solve the crime, one he was an extreme version of the complications being very close to homeMarie Kondo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068449</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Carter|title=The Devil's Feast|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the early 1840s: army ''where he got the newly-opened Reform Club is the focal point for chance to kill a lot of the Liberal elite, where Whigs little yellow fellows and Radicals can co-exist in harmonyhad a fine old time''. Or such He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the intention. With purpose of a celebrity chef swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in its up to the minute kitchen, however, ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the club seems to have more benefits of taking up a reputation for its dinners than its politics, and when a man dies horribly after eating one the Reform could have a problem on its hands. Particularly when it begins to look like murderjob in Spain. Luckily William Avery agrees to look into the matter with some urgency, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George Mann (Editor)|title= Associates of Sherlock Holmes|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=The world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes needs no introduction; a redoubtable protagonist with an appeal that shows no sign of waning. ''Associates of Sherlock Holmes,'' however, moves the spotlight away from our hero and focuses on the exploits of some of the minor players who have featured in his adventures over the years. Here we get a chance to reacquaint ourselves with friends and foes alike, all keen to give their own, unique perspective of the indomitable investigator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299304</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Lindsey DavisB08Z8BMZ7H|title= The Graveyard Mystery of the Hesperides|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Our heroine Albia's grey-eyed and broad-shouldered love interest in this, the fourth of the Falco New Generation crime novels (Falco himself has got on the wrong side of Emperor Domitian, and has very sensibly retired to the coast) is called Manlius – that alone should be enough to tell you reams about the wickedly sly sense of humour Ms Davis displays in her novels. The setting is once again Ancient Rome, and Ms Davis provides enough local colour to create a world so convincing you could almost be there. In fact, the descriptions are so vivid that, as you pull in your skirts or bewail the fate of your brand-new sandals to follow our gutsy heroine into picturesque slums like the Brown Toad bar or Mucky Mule Mews, you could be forgiven for suspecting you've wandered into somewhere far more familiar, like, say, the back streets of Brum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613396</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing|author=Frances Brody|title=Death at the SeasideA P McGrath

|summary=Kate Shackleton felt that she needed We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a holiday feeling of virtue and since it was August when hones his skills: Solon ''wants'nothing'the warriors to live. It' ever happeneds quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, she decided that it was they're sprinkling gold dust onto the ideal time lions' manes to visit her friend Alma and goddaughter Felicity in Whitbymake them look more impressive. The timing was good too - Mrs Sugden was sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to visit her cousin in Scarborough and Jim Sykes was taking his family to Robin Hood's Bayfight for their lives with the wild animals. Perfect! WellToday, it would have been except for a couple of things..'s the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406588</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1529337925|title= Behold A Fair Woman|rating= 3|genre= Crime The Mirror Dance (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary= Mordecai Tremaine is in need of a holiday. According to the blurb ''the island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination'' – except the island isn't called that. Moulin d'Or is the district in the north west of the unnamed Channel Isle to which our hero has been invited by some friends of less than a year's standing: an unlikely start in itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J D Davies|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)Catriona McPherson|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles II's navy sets out for another day at work4. He and his men are charged with helping to subdue the Dutch town of Westerschelling. It's only afterwards that the true consequences hit him, along with some other consequences that are and will be open to conjecture. For the year is 1666 and London is about to face a disaster that will be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)|rating=5

|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn's country mansion t inclined to investigate murder threats. That's part of leave it but Thomas' main reason is to carry out a command from Queen Caroline connected to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the recent South Sea Bubble scandalsofa. The command thought of work was phrased nicely enough, but almost cheering when Dandy took the sinister intent call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss the publisher of Kitty, a magazine and had been told that the man running the person he loves most Punch and Judy show in the worldlocal 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. Those murder threats are Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>solicitor to do the same job.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna MazzolaB08LKT7HSR|title=The UnseeingMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty In December 1933 the remains of aiding and abetting James Greenwood Elowed Underhay were discovered in the murder cellar of Hannah, his fiancéethe Glass Bottle Public House. It's particularly gruesome as Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was brutally dismembered and left in various locations around Londonalso discovered. Bound Kitty Underhay's long search for the gallows and fearing for the future of her young son Georgemother, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a result, the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood to re-investigate the casewho disappeared in June 1916 was over. Edmund approaches it with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what heNow she'll discover and not just in s determined that the professional realmman responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonStephen Clarke|title= Lawless and the Flowers of Sin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who help, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cecilia Ekback|title=In the Month of the Midnight Sun|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1856, Blackasen Village, Sweden: A Lapp sits surrounded by three dead bodies – the vicar, a constable and one other. The murders coincide with the arrival of Magnus Lille, a geologist sent by the Swedish government to map the mountain that gives the village its name. Magnus doesn't realise what he's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem was his sister-in-law, brought with him at his wife's father's, (the Minister for State's), insistence. The events that will take place will cause them both sleepless nights and a real chance that neither will live to go home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susanna Gregory|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew BartholomewSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindlyThis is a spoof spy story, but ineffectual and everyone was stunned by his murder, not least because it happened very publicly - on top of the church tower, in a high wind with a lot of people watchingthat isn't about James Bond. Then the murderer disappearedOr Ian Fleming. Some people saw But it features a black cloak being blown along to man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the marshes outside Cambridge ladies' and swore that it was who works for the devil's worksecret service, but physician Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael knew better and were determined to prove itin the planning side of things more than the active service. These are not Bartholomew's only problems though: Lemming finds himself put on a 'barber surgeon' (free shave or haircut mission with every treatment) recently arrived from Nottingham is causing problems rather than curing illnesses. His sister is struggling to get her husband's tomb built by a female spy called Margaux, and the mason she commissioned pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to do unearth traitors in the work: like builders everywhere throughout the ages he keeps moving from job resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to job and never finishing any. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie MacBird0349423083|title= Art in Death and the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating= 4|genre= Crime Brewery Queen (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries) |summary= It's the winter of 1888 and Sherlock Holmes is languishing. After a devastating result concerning the mysterious Ripper investigation, Holmes can find no solace and falls back in to his troublesome relationship with cocaine. Not even his good friend Doctor Watson can cheer him – that is until an encoded letter arrives from Paris from a young French cabaret star who claims her son has vanished. Intrigued, Holmes explores the case only to uncover that the disappearance of a young boy is only the tip of the iceberg. Journeying to Paris and then to the Lancashire countryside, Holmes and Watson become involved in a dangerous investigation, concerning a prized stolen statue, child slavery, and murder – but who is the culprit behind it all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000812969X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=CC Humphreys|title=FireFrances Brody

|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each otherher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Their first mission was to track down the Fifth Monarchists, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty and hanged for signing Charles IShe's death warrant. That was then, during been approached by William Lofthouse of the Great PlagueBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. A mere year later, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking PitmanSomething is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and Coke's interventions personallyright-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, James went to see what the monarch, continental brewers were doing and, on top of what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that, James is perhaps enjoying himself a new disaster little bit ''too'' much or is about going to hit bring back a German bride but he'd like the capitalbusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Indrek Hargla and Christopher Moseley (translator)0241433568|title= Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=In fifteenth century Tallinn religion and superstition sit side by side. In the midst of this is scientifically-minded apothecary Melchior Wakenstede, known for his curiosity, logical thinking, and ability to solve murders. There are rumours of a ghost a few doors down from Melchior on Rataskaevu Street, though he's not as ready to believe in it as some of his neighbours. When several people die after saying they'd seen the ghost, Melchior can't resist looking for the connection between them and trying to discover the truth behind the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720618452</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEight Detectives|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lloyd Shepherd|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)Alex Pavesi

|summary=1855It'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: Only a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on Londonhe's docks, Constable Charles Horton is called back going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to the areaMegan and Henry about something serious. The disturbing murder of a clerk and Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Horton's sure guests find that he's already dead; Horton saw him diebeen murdered. At this point How can that have happened? There's no one else in the hunt for a devil incarnate beginshouse, taking Horton and his wife Abigail to the other side so one of them must be the world and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Companykiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1473682401|title=Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries The Turning Tide (British Library Crime ClassicsDandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=I'm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's broadly golden age crime, one Those who were with us at the end of my weaknesses and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin EdwardsA Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|Martin EdwardsA Step So Grave]], a man whose knowledge of golden age crime will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is probably unsurpassed and he's done us proud, not only with his selection, but with having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the half-page biographies charms of the writersLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, which precede each storyEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. Thereare two drawbacks: they's just enough there to allow you to place the author re noisy and to direct you to other works if youthey're temptedstaying with Dandy and Hugh. It's an elegant selectionDandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, from had not taken up the well known and chance to look into a problem at the less well knownCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, all set in and around but suddenly the possibility of being out of the country houseat Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A J MacKenzieSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= The Body on the DoorstepHonjin Murders|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=On To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the marshes of Kent in book one to read; preferably quantified by the late eighteenth century, Reverend Hardcastle discovers a dying man on his doorstepwords 'clever' or 'good'. Narrowly escaping a bullet himself For those who need more, he here is entrusted with the dying manextra background – we's last words which leave him questioning re in rural Japan in the mystery behind this anonymous man's death1930s. With smugglers rife along The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the Kent coastwhole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it seems being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as though it was a simple falling out amongst thievesplanned, but the Reverend believes only for the answer wedded couple to this crime lies deeper. Assisted by the brilliant Mrs Chaytor they set off be slashed to solve death in their private annexe before the mystery – but sun rises on their marriage. What with smugglers lurking all through a man missing parts of his fingers being in the county neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the French threatening to invadetime of the crime, there are unsuspected dangers around every cornerthis case has a lot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761137</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB07XLM3SM6|title=The Age of TreacheryMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=In Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the winter care of 1946 Duncan Forrester, formerly her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the Special Operations Executiveconclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was back at his Oxford college as a junior fellow in Ancient Historyno evidence to suggest otherwise. He'd lost the woman he loved Kitty has come to the Gestapo terms with this and in 1933 she was now feeling guilty about running the fact that he Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was besotted reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the wife mix of his best friendholidaymakers, a fellow academicboating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. To confuse matters further the woman And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in question, Margaret Clark, had been having to keep an affair with another lecturer, David Lyall eye on things ''and it seemed likely that she would leave her husband for him'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297808</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E S Thomson0349423067|title= Beloved PoisonThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=St SaviorFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's is Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambitionman, jealousy stripped naked and hatredwith no means of identification. Six tiny coffins, each containing dried flowers Scotland Yard hit a dead end and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside called on the decaying chapel. A silent outsider, with secrets services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her own to hide, is determined to discover knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the truthlead they needed. And in Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a trail that leads from the bloody worlds of dissecting table child and operating theatre, through could not come to terms with the squalor of Newgate Prison and its gallows, Jem Flockhart faces fact that she was now a ruthless adversarywoman experienced in dealing with murder. As the destruction of St Savior's looms, He was reluctant to give her all the dead are unearthed, information which the living are forced into impossible decisions – and murder is the price for secrets to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>police held.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1472127110|title= The Osiris RitualIndian Summer: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigationa Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice NewburyLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, his majesty's special agentour favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on not always for the case once morebetter. When a group of well-to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expeditionshe first settled in Brighton she was alone, they unveil a mummy rudderless and unleash an ancient mysterysecretly grieving for Jack, the lover who died before he could leave his wife. Soon the explorers are being picked off one As time went by one and Newbury must she found in herself an ability to solve the mystery if he is to catch the culprit. But there's more than one brute on the loosecrimes, while Newbury attempts made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to track down let a rogue agentlittle thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, Veronica takes and even found consolation in the case arms of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>a rather charming policeman.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle1912374439|title=Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle AdventuresCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=43.5

|summary=Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There can be few people who haven, I't heard of Sherlock Holmes, whether ve given the game away. For in the guise of the original stories or subsequent film and television adaptations including the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freemana book that centres around a murder, I've told you who are pictured on did it – the dust cover of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''. It's Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this most recent series volume, which has widened the fan base splits its time between one of the stories war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and many of them won't have copies of the original stories to handlate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. My own copy In this timeline, a maverick agent is a 1959 reprint of the 1929 edition which had four stories back in town, one volumewho might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a young family, but this current volume has nineteen stories except he was thought by all to have died in the one book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940163</amazonuk>War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham1786075431|title=Sweet DangerMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people'Sweet Danger'' s life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the fifth book city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in Margery Allinghamher charitable home. I say 's 'was'Campion', for she has vanished. Only due to Zofia' seriess help does she get found, which has our eponymous gentleman-adventurer on dead and in a quest to find place the rightful heir of a suddenlynear-valuable principality on the Adriatic Sea known as Avernalame woman could never reach by herself. The British Government want proof of ownership and this, of course, involves overcoming several obstacles, including Just who could be killing people in a curious riddlecharity home, collecting various items and keeping one step ahead of to what end? And why does Zofia feel the enemy. The quest soon becomes need to make a race against time, when the villains, led name for herself by Machiavellian schemer Brett Savanake, start to close in on our heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474689</amazonuk>answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery Allingham1786893762|title= Mystery MileThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating= 4.5

|summary= On A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a transatlantic linerprevious case, an American points out Crowdy Lobbett and predicts that he will have been murdered within where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a fortnightprivate eye thriller. Indeed he places a bet on itAnd yet . . . take another look. It seems like This detective is a safe bet: retired Judge Lobbett has been woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the subject rich and colourful paradoxes of four near misses so farthat era: four attempts on his life that have misfired technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and killed someone close to himthe downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. His children have persuaded him to take Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a trip to England widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an attempt utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to keep him cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat saferremarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for a while at leastthe determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Dowling0349414327|title=AscensionA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Alvise Marangon is Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an artist 'resting' between commissions outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so using his guile that it can become a museum and enterprise as a tour guide to those taking her parents will be there for the European Grand Tour in 18th century Veniceevent. Everything has What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a business as usual feel to it for Alvise until he notices a fellow gondolier paying his friend not momentous event and having the opportunity to take a couple photographs of English tourists. Then, as the new Doge is inaugurated a mansetting for ''Wuthering Heights''s head is thrown into the crowd? Nothing could go wrong. Showing people around a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>Or could it?