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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Macbain0571370977|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)The Lock-Up|author=John Banville
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|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isnIt't s six months since the most popular person dramatic events which we read about in Rome. He may be a high ranking politician with the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a spy, ambitious [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa Dr Quirke is discovered, unceremoniously now back in Dublin and repeatedly stabbed in living (if somewhat uneasily) with his well-guarded bedroomdaughter, there are many who sigh with reliefPhoebe. However, the murderer must still be found The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny this has made the Younger as history will dub him) to investigatealready strained relationship between them more difficult. Pliny isnThey't a natural but reluctantly takes on the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that the culprit must be found before re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the end body of the Roman Gamesa young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, giving Pliny 15 daysis found in a lock-up. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cultsAt first, prostitution and other things he wasnit looked as though she't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poetd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337968|title=Vices In Place of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
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|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to full detective, start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and continues her job will be to solve cases help patients with his usual mix of dogged determination and flairthose non-medical problems which affect their health. Toronto at the end The hardest part of the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between job will be to persuade people that the rich services she offers really are free and the poor, and the fact that many they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the latter group are utterly destitute leads to all manner problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of crimes, great and smallher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr057136358X|title=Fell the Angels|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman April in the late nineteenth century. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer with a drink problem. A woman's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her to go back to him could be problematical. As a compromise she was sent to Malvern to take a water cure and it was there that she came into contact with Dr James Gully. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on Cecilia's part (probably the most of which she was capable) and love on his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpain|author=Graeme Kent|title=One Blood|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sergeant Kella is being sent from his native Malaita to another part of the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage there. In the same district, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control of a mission with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in their ways, to say the least. Then a body turns up in the church… is this related to the sabotage? And how does the wartime history of John F Kennedy, vying to become the new President of the USA, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Long|title=Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers |rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal in one case in depth, there’s always room for another title at the other end of the spectrum, dealing in brief with a variety of murders over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=Time and TideBanville|rating=4.5
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|summary=A ship is wrecked on 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 coast thought that he was an extreme version of 16th century ScotlandMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the crew gone, army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the only man on board dying little yellow fellows and had a windmill lashed to its deckfine old time''. What happened? What sort He was spending a lot of illness does it carry? And, more importantly for time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the townpurpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn's people, who gets to keep t drink champagne with bubbles in the windmill''morning''? Itwas after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on the casejob in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel StashowerB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersMystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath
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|summary=There are two things you need to know about StashowerWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's Harry Houdinithe physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. Firstly, he is The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a huge fan feeling of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, virtue and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of hones his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors tolive. Therefore, It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when he finds himself involvedwe first see them, albeit in a minor way, in a murder, he immediately decides it is up they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to him make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to solve fight for their lives with the casewild animals. It never occurs to him that he might fail Today, because that is simply not an option for it's the Great Houdinicrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337925|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch MysteriesThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
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|summary=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 the sofa. The fourth book thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the series publisher of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like a magazine and had been told that the man running the others, Punch and Judy show in Toronto. Religion, money the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and family rule this lateher sister Freckle -Victorian city just as they do back 'home' to drum up some local interest in England, and Murdochhis show. Sandy Bissett's struggles for truth request was simple: she wanted Gilver and justice, not Osborne to mention his love life, are played out against warn the sense man about infringement of guilt copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithsame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen JenningsB08LKT7HSR|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 Murder 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 Belltower (HistoricalA Miss Underhay Mystery)|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
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|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
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|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
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|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
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|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=Ask anyone about From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King'The Thrity-nine Steps' and I guarantee they'll s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be able taken to tell you it's Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a spy story man, stripped naked and with Richard Hannay at its heartno means of identification. Most people will be able Scotland 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. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to tell you how it startsterms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. But when you ask, 'Yes, but what ARE He was reluctant to give her all the information which the 39 Steps?' most people will falterpolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels1472127110|title=ShadowfallIndian Summer: A Novel of Sherlock Holmesa Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara 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 stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a certain yodellingnugget of something, long-haired noblemanwell, let's say recreational, more than up created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the name of King by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the Jungleghost.Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman.If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements0349414327|title=John Shakespeare: Prince|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This is the third in the excellent Elizabethan murder mystery series, featuring John Shakespeare, brother of Will. An inexplicable murder is linked to a much deeper plot of political dimensions, leading Shakespeare into danger and tragedy. A series Snapshot 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>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Perry|title=Betrayal at Lisson Grove|rating=4.5|genre=Crime Murder (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=After recently reading Perry's [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying it, I was looking forward to reading this book and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with Pitt, Special Branch, in the midst of frenzied action trying to catch a suspect. Suspected of murder, 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 a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board a ferry for France, believing that's where the suspect could be heading. Pitt is extremely thorough and meticulous in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts of the world: Europe and Ireland in particular. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Perry|title=Acceptable LossFrances Brody
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|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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