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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Martin Davies|title=The Year After|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Tom Allen is home from World War I. Whilst waiting to be demobbed, he receives an invitation to attend the annual Christmas house<!-party at Hannesford Court, the stately home of Sir Robert and Lady Stansbury. He used to look forward to it before joining up and so decides to attend again, but everything has changed. The Stansbury's heir, Harry, and son-inRemove -law, Oliver, were killed and second son, Reggie Stansbury, remains in a nursing home with no legs and dwindling self-respect. Whilst coming to terms with the devastating realisation that he's one of the very few men in their set to return alive and entire, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such a gathering. Everyone believes it was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint of hidden secrets. Along with her Ladyship's former companion, Anne (who has issues of her own), Tom decides to investigate as truths are exhumed, making him doubt whether those happier times were as idyllic as he remembers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980443</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Engelmann0571370977|title=The Stockholm Octavo|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bachelor's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel he's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that there's a deadline for the wedding. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo', a fortuneLock-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who will ensure his success. However, not all goes to plan as, over the eight nights it takes to complete the Octavo, it becomes apparent that the prediction isn't for Emil's future, but has become an Octavo to save the whole of Sweden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUp|author=Bruce Macbain|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)John Banville

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337968|title=Vices In Place of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|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>

 {{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel StashowerB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersMystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337925|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch MysteriesThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=The fourth book in It was the series of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the others, in Toronto. ReligionAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, money and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in Englandso often happened, and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not it was cold enough to mention his love life, are played out against have the sense of guilt fire lit and Bunty the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the DragonDalmation wasn's Tail: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving for t inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the fiancée who died over a year beforesofa. He busies himself, The thought of work was almost cheering when he is not working, with training for Dandy took the police sports' day, learning to dance, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges call from Sandy Bissett in the next-door roomDundee. She is was the publisher of a charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, magazine and had been told 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 man running the Titanic, Punch and several books, for both children and adults, are being published based on Judy show in the story local park had used copies of the doomed ship. In this particular book the fact that we already know fate two of the majority of the travellers adds a whole new level of tension her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to a story which is already an exciting thrillerdrum up some local interest in his show. Not only is there Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the question man about infringement of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, copyright - and Dandy and more crucially: will Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>same job.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam SicilianoB08LKT7HSR|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sax RohmerStephen Clarke|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuSpy Who Inspired Me

|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 ladies'and who works for the secret service, but in the brains planning side of any three men of genius''things more than the active service. Petrie is immediately plunged into Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a headlong race against time desperate mission to stop unearth traitors in the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans resistance network, and leading the East Lemming desperately trying to world dominationkeep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349423083|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, Death and some of the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this category. The Murdoch stories, however, come from a different angle, being placed Brewery Queen (for the most partKate Shackleton Mysteries) in Canada, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirit. Loyalty to the Queen is as ardent here as back home in 'the old country', but there is a rawness and a sense of space to these novels which is due in large part to their setting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Dickens|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodFrances Brody

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ruffle0241433568|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd EditionEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=45

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Park Bridges1473682401|title=My Dear WatsonThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Pleasures of MenHonjin Murders

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben PastorB07XLM3SM6|title=Liar MoonMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Near VeronaElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, northern ItalyKitty, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policemanin the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, known mainly because there was no evidence to have conducted previous murder investigationssuggest otherwise. He is asked Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look into after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the death mix of one Vittorio Lisiholidaymakers, a prominent local fascist who was run over boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in his wheelchair to keep an eye on his own estate by a car. The number one suspect is his widow Clarettathings ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry O'Hara0349423067|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In TransylvaniaBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=I normally start reviews with From Christmas to Easter a brief plot summarytrain ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, but arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it seems almost besides carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the point to do so for body of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the Affair hope that her knowledge and connections in Transylvania'Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. From those seven words, Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the reader will have no doubt guessed fact that this is she was now a Holmes meets Dracula story, and so we may as well move straight on woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the burning question – is it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>police held.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D E Meredith1472127110|title=The Devil's RibbonIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan

|summary=In the London of 1858Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, the Irish are the poorest of the poorour favourite fifties sleuth, despised and feared by since the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of the famine which decimated the populationwar, and now not always for the majority of them live in filthy, germ-ridden rookeriesbetter. Cholera is killing them off When she first settled in their hundredsBrighton she was alone, rudderless and blame secretly grieving for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at Jack, the feet of their English masters, together with those Irishmen lover who have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressorsdied before he could leave his wife. And as the hottest summer on record drags onAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and its horrific consequences approach, the mood even found consolation in the slums is ripe for violence and murderarms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Bruce Wheeler1912374439|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 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>}} {{newreviewCourier|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane to write a series of books about the early years of Sherlock Holmes, Kjell Ola Dahl and if this book is typical then they made an excellent choice. Through these stories we see the development of the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlock's personality, set in the context of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do a young person could desire. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Hays|title=The Killing WayDon Bartlett (translator)

|summary=PostNazi-Roman invasion and Great Britain shows occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the signs Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a beleagured nationyoung woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. And straight away Hays gives us an historical flavour - SaxonsIn this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, Picts even though she and names such he lived together with their baby as 'Ambrosius Aurelianus' are mentioned early on a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890050</amazonuk>War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams1786075431|title=Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of GodMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=43.5

|summary=A body is discovered in LondonMeet Zofia. The young gentleman concernedA socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a Mr Hilary De Montfortcharitable lady, had enjoyed a and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good life: no money problems for example and as far as anyone can ascertain, no enemies eitherbut she knows it could always be better. The motive Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is therefore fuzzy at bestnearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. The state of his body when it One such was discovered Mrs Mohr, although she was bizarre rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. - it looked as if heI say ''was''d been hurled from a great height, even although hefor she has vanished. Only due to Zofia'd been discovered s help does she get found, dead and in an open space around Grosvenor Squarea place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. And in the words of Dr Watson himself (it is he Just who narrates could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the main) ' ... as varied as our capital might be, it will always be found wanting of mountain ranges.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682822</amazonuk>need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels1786893762|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 [[Shadowfall: 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>}} {{newreviewThings in Jars|author=John O'Connell|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A NovelJess Kidd|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=45

|summary=Ask anyone about A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you'The Thrityre more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-nine Stepsmourning, with a widow' s cap and I guarantee theystout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast''ll be able thing for a lady to tell you do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's a spy story with Richard Hannay at its heartactually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Most people will be able to tell you how it startsHer housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. But when you askAnd then, of course, there'Yess the ghost. Ruby Doyle, but what ARE world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the 39 Steps?' most people will falterdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels0349414327|title=Shadowfall: A Novel Snapshot of Sherlock HolmesMurder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=You remember Sherlock HolmesEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, yes? Deerstalkerphotography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, pipe, leetle grey cells… (Oh, sorryKate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that was Poirotit can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, but same kind witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of deductive ability), naked winged-woman on, or at least floating above, the sofa in Baker Street… wait a minutesetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Seriously Nothing could go wrong. Or could it?|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 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 arch-enemy Moriarty without success on a cold night in November 1882, Sherlock Holmes is left maimed and unable to walk without the use of a cane. Despondent, he decides to give up his career as a detective – but is talked into taking an extra special case, as a Madame Giry comes across the Channel to beg his help with the mysterious 'ghost' which is terrorising the Opera Populaire…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carole Bugge|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of India|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A woman with a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at a concert recital. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while Move on an innocent holiday to the west country. A malformed, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murdered. There is only one person, who famously went over a certain Alpine waterfall, who could piece all this and more into a threat to the Royalty and Empire itself. But there is also only one person, who famously seemed to have stayed dead in going over the same Alpine waterfall, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]