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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0571370977|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesThe Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=4.5
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|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted to full detective, 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 Dublin and continues to solve cases living (if somewhat uneasily) with his usual mix daughter, Phoebe. The worst of dogged determination his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and flairthis has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. Toronto at They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the end body of the nineteenth century a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is marked by found in a huge divide between the rich and the poorlock-up. At first, and the fact it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that many of the latter group are utterly destitute leads to all manner of crimes, great and smallit was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr1529337968|title=Fell the AngelsIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a young woman in qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the late nineteenth centuryNHS is born. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello 'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and quickly came her job will be to realise that he was an adulterer help patients with a drink problemthose non-medical problems which affect their health. A woman's place was thought The hardest part of the job will be to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised persuade people that forcing her to go back to him could be problematical. As a compromise the services she was sent offers really are free and that they don't have to Malvern do anything to take a water cure and it was there that she came into contact with Dr James Gullyqualify for them. He was a good deal older than Cecilia Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a relationship developed between the two - affection on Cecilia's part (probably the most problem of her own which she was capable) and love on hismight give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent057136358X|title=One BloodApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|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, 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 the London of 1858, the Irish are always coped with the poorest mix of the poorholidaymakers, despised boating people and feared by the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of naval college on the famine which decimated 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 '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murderhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Bruce Wheeler0349423067|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes - Over 400 Computer Generated Street Level Photos|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=Should I trust a book that has a typo Body 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 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 the Conan Doyle buff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A body is discovered in LondonFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. The young gentleman concernedIn early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a Mr Hilary De Montfortman, had enjoyed a good life: no money problems for example stripped naked and as far as anyone can ascertain, with no enemies eithermeans of identification. The motive is therefore fuzzy at bestScotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. The state of his body when it Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the fact that she was discovered was bizarre - it looked as if he'd been hurled from now a great height, even although he'd been discovered woman experienced in an open space around Grosvenor Squaredealing with murder. And in He was reluctant to give her all the words of Dr Watson himself (it is he who narrates in information which the main) ' ... as varied as our capital might be, it will always be found wanting of mountain rangespolice held.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels1472127110|title=Shadowblood: A Novel Of Sherlock Holmes|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=For those picking up a Tracy Revels novel for the first time, she writes Sherlock Holmes fiction with the twist that Holmes is a supernatural being, coming from the Shadows. In the hugely enjoyable romp [[ShadowfallIndian Summer: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes by Tracy Revels|Shadowfall]], Watson discovered this, and was plunged headlong into an adventure involving Titania, Spring-Heeled Jack, voodoo, and various other dark and mysterious beings. That one ended with the good doctor losing his memory of the story – but I was always hoping that was merely a temporary measure, and indeed, it’s not long here before he starts to recall Holmes’ true nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920474</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dicky Neely and Paul R Spiring (Editor)|title=The Case of the Grave Accusation: 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>}} {{newreview|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… (Oh, sorry, that and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was Poirotalone, but same kind of deductive ability), naked winged-woman on, or at least floating aboverudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the sofa lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in Baker Street… wait a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerard Kelly|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I'll spare people the details of Holmes herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely determined young woman called Vesta who refused to pick this one up is probably familiar with the Victorian duo. This is generally very faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle originals let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the best stories in this set arms of thirteen sound authentic enough to take their place alongside some of the canona rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Workman1912374439|title=Rendezvous at the Populaire : A Novel of Sherlock HolmesThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)
|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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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry1786893762|title=Betrayal at Lisson GroveThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=After recently reading Perry's [[Acceptable Loss A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying ita previous case, I where the child was looking forward to reading this book and hoping it would be as good as readnot found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. The novel opens with PittThis detective is a woman, Special Branchand the setting is Victorian London, in with all the midst rich and colourful paradoxes of frenzied action trying to catch that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a suspectfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. Suspected And before you're more than a couple of murderpages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, itwith a widow's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowdscap and stout, duck through alleysshiny boots, but their best efforts are simply not good enough. The man is not caught. Hethe tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast''s free to strike again. This all makes thing for a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind lady to board do!) is mixed with a ferry for Francenugget of something, well, let's say recreational, believing created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact thatit's where actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the suspect could be headingby. Pitt Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is extremely thorough and meticulous in all matters also somewhat remarkable. And then, of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in course, there's the storyghost. We learn of deep unrest in parts of the Ruby Doyle, world: Europe -famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and Ireland in particularit's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. And Perry If he really exists, that is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry0349414327|title=Acceptable LossA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=I must admit to not taking to the rather stylized front cover Even detectives need a break and nor did I take to for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the titlemental relaxation which she needs. I got When the initial impression that this novel local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was going keen to take the opportunity to be all about heaving bosoms visit Haworth and manly men without too much substance. Was I right though? I gave a bit Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a sigh as I started on chapter one. Straight away we meet two of museum and her parents will be there for the central characters, Mr and Mrs Monkevent. Mrs Monk (Hester) seems to have brought a local street urchin into What could be better than seeing her lovely home. All sounds family, witnessing a bit odd momentous event and also a bit intriguing. Perry back-tracks a little for having the benefit opportunity to take photographs of her readers and lets us know how this situation has come about. The boy is street-wise but hethe setting for ''Wuthering Heights's also now desperate for a warm, safe bed and regular meals if he's lucky? Nothing could go wrong. He's had a dreadful life up till now and has somehow survived a terrible ordeal - and yes, you Or could say that it's the stuff of nightmares. I loved his name - Scuff and I automatically called him Scruff in my head, every time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755376846</amazonuk>?
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