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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Stashower0571370977|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersLock-Up|author=John Banville
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=There are two things you need to know about StashowerIt's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, now back in Dublin and much more importantlyliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, he is utterly certain Phoebe. The worst of his own ability to do whatever grief is over but he sets his mind toirrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. Therefore They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, when he finds himself involvedJewish scholar, albeit in a minor wayRosa Jacobs, is found in a murderlock-up. At first, he immediately decides it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him convinced that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdiniit was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337968|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch MysteriesIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The fourth book in It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the series of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch NHS is set, like the others, born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in Torontotheir GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. Religion, money The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and family rule this late-Victorian city just as that they don't have to do back 'home' in England, and Murdoch's struggles anything to qualify for truth and justice, not to mention his love life, are played out against them. Some of the sense problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings057136358X|title=Under the Dragon's Tail: Murdoch MysteriesApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Murdoch is Terry Tice was a lonely manhitman, still grieving for 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 fiancée who died over a year beforethought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He busies himselfenjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he is not working, was in Burma with training for the police sportsarmy '' day, learning where he got the chance to dance, kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges in the next-door roomhad a fine old time''. She is He was spending a charming young widow lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a young son, but since she is not Catholic, swizzle stick - surely he knows, sadly, wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he can never find married bliss with hersaw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan JamesB08Z8BMZ7H|title=UnsinkableThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=This year sees We meet Solon in Pergamon in the hundredth anniversary second century of the sinking of common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the Titanic, and several books, games put on for both children and adults, are being published based on the story amusement of the doomed shippopulace. In this particular book The remuneration isn't high but the fact that we already know fate of work gives the majority doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the travellers adds warriors to live. It's quite a whole new level of tension spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to a story which is already an exciting thrillermake them look more impressive. Not only is there The sagitarii are the archers and the question of whether they will catch beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the bad guy or not, but alsowild animals. Today, and more crucially: will it's the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>crocodiles.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Siciliano1529337925|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse It 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't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on guests at a ball, leaving the upper class revellers shockedsofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. When, over She was the next few years, misfortune befalls several publisher of a magazine and had been told that the partyman running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters -goers, pottedRosie Cheek and her sister Freckle -meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows there's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmesdrum up some local interest in his show. It Sandy Bissett's a slightly different version of Holmes from that we've come request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless warn the man, is capable about infringement of feeling strongly for the right woman copyright - could the detective find love as well as the answer and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>same job.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sax RohmerB08LKT7HSR|title=The Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Dr Petrie is surprised, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to England. But this is no mere pleasure visit – In December 1933 the former Scotland Yard man is on remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the trail cellar of Fu Manchu, a Chinese doctor the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with ''the brains murder of any three men of geniusElowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she'. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop s determined that the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading the East man responsible for her murder will be brought to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>justice.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen JenningsStephen Clarke|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch MysteriesThe Spy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly commonThis is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and some 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the 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, northern Italyleaving her daughter, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policemanKitty, known in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked find out what happened to look into her and the death of one Vittorio Lisiconclusion was that she was dead, a prominent local fascist who mainly because there was run over in his wheelchair on his own estate by a carno evidence to suggest otherwise. The number one suspect is his widow Claretta.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerry O'Hara|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In Transylvania|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I normally start reviews Kitty has come to terms with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes this and in 1933 she was running the Affair Dolphin Hotel in Transylvania'Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - 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 DevilKitty could not understand why. She's Ribbon|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In always coped with the London mix of 1858holidaymakers, the Irish are the poorest of the poor, despised boating people and feared by the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of the famine which decimated naval college on the population, and now the majority edge of them live in filthy, germtown before -ridden rookeries. Cholera is killing them off and she's done every job in their hundreds, and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet of their English masters, together with hotel. those Irishmen who And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as the hottest summer been roped in to keep an eye on record drags on, things ''and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murder.|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 a book that '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has a typo on the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a book that practically says, as its first words, 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 been hired to take charge 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 security at the Conan Doyle buffhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane0349423067|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=For those picking up From Christmas to Easter a Tracy Revels novel for the first timetrain ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, she writes Sherlock Holmes fiction with the twist arriving before dawn so that Holmes is a supernatural being, coming from the Shadowsforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the hugely enjoyable romp [[Shadowfall: A Novel boxes discovered the body of Sherlock Holmes by Tracy Revels|Shadowfall]], Watson discovered thisa man, stripped naked and was plunged headlong into an adventure involving Titania, Spring-Heeled Jack, voodoo, with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and various other dark called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and mysterious beingsconnections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. That one ended Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the good doctor losing his memory of the story – but I was always hoping fact that she was merely now a temporary measure, and indeed, it’s not long here before he starts woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to recall Holmes’ true naturegive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John O'Connell|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A Novel|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=1900, and a man on a ship coming back from the Boer War to edit the Daily Express meets one of his heroes in the form of Arthur Conan Doyle. With similar experiences and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plot. When they do fix on time to do so, it leads to literary prospects, which lead to a week's research together on Dartmoor, which leads to ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. But perhaps in a way that only one of them intended.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dicky Neely and Paul R Spiring (Editor)1472127110|title=The Case of the Grave AccusationIndian Summer: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating=3|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Much in the way that legend says that King Arthur will return when his country needs him, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned because an accusation has been made against their creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The charge is that the great man plagiarised ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from his great friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson – and then went on to commit adultery, blackmail and murder in order to conceal what he had done. Holmes' rooms in Baker Street have not changed a great deal – if one can overlook the addition of a desktop computer and better plumbing – but it's not long before the pair are off to Dartmoor to discover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218819</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Buchan|title=The Thirty-nine Steps|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Ask anyone about 'The Thrity-nine Steps' and I guarantee they'll be able to tell you it's a spy story with Richard Hannay at its heart. Most people will be able to tell you how it starts. But when you ask, 'Yes, but what ARE the 39 Steps?' most people will falter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Tracy Revels|title=Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock HolmesSara Sheridan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=You remember Sherlock HolmesLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, yes? Deerstalkerour favourite fifties sleuth, pipesince the war, leetle grey cells… (Ohand not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, sorryrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, that was Poirot, but same kind of deductive the lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability)to solve crimes, naked winged-made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman on, or at least floating abovecalled Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the sofa in Baker Street… wait arms of a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>rather charming policeman.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerard Kelly1912374439|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock HolmesCourier|ratingauthor=4|genre=Crime Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Historicaltranslator)|summary=I'll spare people the details of Holmes and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely to pick this one up is probably familiar with the Victorian duo. This is generally very faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle originals and the best stories in this set of thirteen sound authentic enough to take their place alongside some of the canon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Workman|title=Rendezvous at the Populaire : A Novel of Sherlock Holmes
|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 personnearing the city due to lack of hygiene, who famously went and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over a certain Alpine waterfalltheir heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, who could piece all this and more into a threat although she was rich enough to the Royalty keep private lodgings and Empire itselfstaff in her charitable home. But there is also only one personI say ''was'', who famously seemed for she has vanished. Only due to have stayed Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in going over a place the same Alpine waterfallnear-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, with and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the strength of mind need to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>make a name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Jose Farmer1786893762|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless PeerThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It's World War One, A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and Britain has got wind of some brilliant scientific researchfrustration left by a previous case, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out where the world's supply of sauerkrautchild was not found in time. But Hardly original themes for a dastardly German has stolen the formulaprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Before he can give This detective is a variant based on boiled meatwoman, cabbage and potatoes to the kaisersetting is Victorian London, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must be brought out with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of beekeeping retirement. Cue an adventure that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a half, as he fascination with the bizarre and Watson take to the skies for the first time downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in their hectic lives, end up you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in darkest Africahalf-mourning, with a widow's cap and encounter a certain yodellingstout, shiny boots, long-haired noblemanbut the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, more than up what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to the name do!) is mixed with a nugget of King of the Junglesomething, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=John Shakespeare: Prince|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the third in the excellent Elizabethan murder mystery seriesby. Her housemaid, featuring John Shakespearebeing seven-foot-tall, brother of Willis also somewhat remarkable. An inexplicable murder is linked to a much deeper plot And then, of political dimensionscourse, leading Shakespeare into danger and tragedythere's the ghost. A series of bombingsRuby Doyle, which appear to be targeting the immigrant population causes huge unrest and fearworld-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and leads to it's clear he has a soft spot for the uncovering of further political dimensionsdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544251</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry0349414327|title=Betrayal at Lisson GroveA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=After recently reading Perry's Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying itWhen the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, I Kate was looking forward keen to take the opportunity to reading this book visit Haworth and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with PittStanbury, Special Branch, in not least because the midst deeds of frenzied action trying to catch a suspect. Suspected of murder, the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowds, duck through alleys, but their best efforts are simply not good enough. The man is not caught. He's free to strike again. This all makes for can become a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board a ferry museum and her parents will be there for France, believing that's where the suspect event. What could be heading. Pitt is extremely thorough better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and meticulous in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in having the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts opportunity to take photographs of the world: setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Europe and Ireland in particularNothing could go wrong. And Perry is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>Or could it?
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