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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Mann (Editor)0571370977|title=Encounters of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as he was back in the late 1800s, maybe even more so with the advent of TV and film adaptations of his adventures. Indeed, such is the lasting appeal of the character that since the death of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works published, picking up where the original stories left off. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Lock-Up|author=Matthew Pearl|title=The TechnologistsJohn Banville
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|summary=The year 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 1868 now back in Dublin and Boston is under threat from an evil genius who seems to have the uncanny ability to manipulate matter itselfliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The city worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already experienced two attacks; the chaos in the harbour strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the navigation instruments went awry and the eerie spectacle in the commercial quarter when every item body of glassa young, including windowsJewish scholar, eyeglassesRosa Jacobs, clocks and watches spontaneously meltedis found in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide. But are these attacks a prelude to something greater?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James P Blaylock1529337968|title=The Aylesford SkullIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=45
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|summary=Langdon StIt's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. Ives, renowned scientist She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and adventurer, returns home from the hubbub Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and grime of Victorian London her job will be to his tranquil residence in rural Aylesford where he lives help patients with his wife Alice and those non-medical problems which affect their two young childrenhealth. Weary The hardest part of the city, having survived a devastating explosion job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and particularly vicious attempt on his life, he is hoping that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some repose and a chance to work quietly on his latest project; a dirigible airshipinsight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Gallagher057136358X|title=The Kingdom of BonesApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45
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|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn'If you like this sort t think of thing…himself in those terms. He saw what he did as '' reads a line from Stephen Gallaghermatter of making things tidy''s . I couldn'The Kingdom t resist the thought that he was an extreme version of BonesMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ', 'then here comes where he got the kind chance to kill a lot of thing you’ll like'. It’s describing the opening music for little yellow fellows and had a theatrical number, but it’s an almost perfect tagline for fine old time''The Kingdom . He was spending a lot of Bonestime with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn' itself. If you like Victorians, vaudeville and villainy, if you like prizet know the purpose of a swizzle stick -fighting and police chases and possession by surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the Devil, then here comes 'The Kingdom of Bones'. It’s morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the kind benefits of thing that you’re really going to liketaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dashiell HammettB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Return Mystery of the Thin ManHealing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=IWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he've recently been discovering s the original works physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of Raymond Chandler which, like many people, I'd only really known from the Hollywood renditionspopulace. A natural, if backwards, progression from there was clearly to The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the writer that Chandler called doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants''the ace performerwarriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the man lions'manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who did over and over again what only are going to fight for their lives with the best writers ever do at allwild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie Fox1529337925|title=Elijah's MermaidThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and old friend Frederick HallBunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. Hall has discovered Lamb's small grandchildren, Lily and Elijah, The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in a London home for foundlingsDundee. Lamb's son Gabriel She was the publisher of a magazine and had died after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappeared. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discovery, Augustus adopts been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the twins, raising them local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland Houseshow. There Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the children grow, happy man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and lovedAlex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James CarnacB08LKT7HSR|title=The Autobiography of Jack Murder in the RipperBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The ''Autobiography'' presents itself as In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Ripper’s story told from his own perspectiveGlass Bottle Public House. The son of an impoverished doctor, young Carnac has a childhood obsession Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with blood which a series of unfortunate events morphs into a full-blown desire to slit human throats. It’s the typical Victorian coming-murder ofElowed and his half-age story (from birthbrother, to schoolDenzil Hammett, then first love and finally adulthood) with a twistwhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the path Carnac’s on leads him man responsible for her murder will be brought to become not a responsible adult but the most famous murderer of the nineteenth centuryjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=As This is a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholmspoof spy story, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bachelorthat isn's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luckt about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. ContrastinglyBut it features a man called Ian Lemming, his superiors at work feel hewho dresses well and 's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up likes the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that thereladies's a deadline and who works for the wedding. Emil panics secret service, but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo', a fortune-telling spread in the planning side of eight cards to guide him to things more than the eight people who will ensure his successactive service. HoweverLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, not all goes to plan asand the pair end up stranded in Normandy, over the eight nights it takes with Margaux on a desperate mission to complete unearth traitors in the Octavoresistance network, it becomes apparent that the prediction isn't for Emil's future, but has become an Octavo and Lemming desperately trying to save the whole of Sweden.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Macbain0349423083|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isn't the most popular person in Rome. He may be a high ranking politician with the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a spy, ambitious Death and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa is discovered, unceremoniously and repeatedly stabbed in his well-guarded bedroom, there are many who sigh with relief. However, the murderer must still be found and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus Brewery Queen (or Pliny the Younger as history will dub himKate Shackleton Mysteries) to investigate. Pliny isn'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 the end of the Roman Games, giving Pliny 15 days. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cults, prostitution and other things he wasn't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted to full detectiveKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and continues to solve cases with his usual mix of dogged determination and flairher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Toronto at the end She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the nineteenth century Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is marked by going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a huge divide between trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the rich continental brewers were doing and the poor, and the fact what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that many of James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the latter group are utterly destitute leads business to all manner of crimes, great and smallbe ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr0241433568|title=Fell the AngelsEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman in the late nineteenth century. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello It's 1930 and Megan and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer Henry are staying with a drink problemBunny at his house in Spain. A womanIt's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Ceciliaunbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her to go back going to him could be problematical. As have a compromise she was sent rest and then he wants to Malvern talk to take a water cure Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it was there never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that she came into contact with Dr James Gullyhe's been murdered. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on CeciliaHow can that have happened? There's part (probably no one else in the most house, so one of which she was capable) and love on histhem must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent1473682401|title=One BloodThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Sergeant Kella is being sent from his native Malaita to another part Those who were with us at the end of the Solomon Islands [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to investigate logging sabotage thereMallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. In When they arrive no one can doubt the same districtcharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control of a mission Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in their waysDandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to say the least. Then look into a body turns up in problem at the church… is this related Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the sabotage? And how does the wartime history possibility of John F Kennedy, vying to become the new President being out of the USA, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>house at Gilverton seems irresistible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LongSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Honjin Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one case thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in depththe neighbourhood, there’s always room for another title and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the other end time of the spectrumcrime, dealing in brief with this case has a variety lot of murders over the yearspeculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKayB07XLM3SM6|title=Time and Tide|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A ship is wrecked on the coast of 16th century Scotland, the crew gone, the only man on board dying and a windmill lashed to its deck. What happened? What sort of illness does it carry? And, more importantly for the town's people, who gets to keep the windmill? It's a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on Murder at the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDolphin Hotel|author=Daniel Stashower|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersHelena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. FirstlyElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, he is a huge fan in the care of Sherlock Holmesher grandmother. Secondly A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to do whatever he sets his mind leave tolook after her sister who was ill. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit She was reluctant to leave Kitty in a minor waycharge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the casehotel. It never occurs And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to him that he might fail, because that is simply not keep an option for eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the Great Houdinihotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349423067|title=Let Loose The Body on the Dogs: Murdoch Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The fourth book in From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the series forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the othersporters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, in Torontostripped naked and with no means of identification. Religion, money Scotland Yard hit a dead end and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' called on the services of Kate Shackleton in England, the hope that her knowledge and Murdoch's struggles for truth connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and justice, could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to mention his love life, are played out against give her all the sense of guilt and information which the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithpolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1472127110|title=Under the Dragon's TailIndian Summer: Murdoch Mysteriesa Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Murdoch is a lonely manLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, still rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the fiancée lover who died over a year beforehe could leave his wife. He busies himselfAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, when he is not working, with training for the police sports' day, learning made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to dancelet a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges even found consolation in the next-door room. She is arms of a rather charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with herpoliceman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan James1912374439|title=UnsinkableThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=This year sees Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the hundredth anniversary of game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the sinking Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of the Titanicwar, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and several bookstheir store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, for both children and adultsthe late 1960s, are when great consternation is being published based on the story of the doomed shipfelt. 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 timeline, a story which maverick agent is already an exciting thriller. Not only is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or notback in town, but alsoone who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and more crucially: will he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Siciliano1786075431|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=An old gypsy woman places Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a curse medical professor, she's intent on guests at making herself known as a ballcharitable lady, leaving the upper class revellers shockedand keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. When In 1890s Cracow, over the next few yearslife is pretty good, misfortune befalls several of the party-goersbut she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows thereother people's only one recourse left life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to him - lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to call Sherlock Holmeskeep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. It I say ''was's a slightly different version of Holmes from that we've come to expect, thoughfor she has vanished. The detective Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, far from being an emotionless man, is capable of feeling strongly for dead and in a place the right near-lame woman - could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the detective find love as well as the answer need to the mysterymake a name for herself by answering those questions? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sax Rohmer1786893762|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Dr Petrie A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is surprisedstill struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to Englandwhere the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. But this This detective is no mere pleasure visit – a woman, and the former Scotland Yard man setting is on Victorian London, with all the trail rich and colourful paradoxes of Fu Manchu, that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a Chinese doctor fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the brains tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of any three men of geniussomething, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Petrie Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and leading it's clear he has a soft spot for the East to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349414327|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly commonEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, and some of photography gives her the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this categorymental relaxation which she needs. The Murdoch stories When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, howeverKate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, come from not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a different angle, being placed (museum and her parents will be there for the most part) in Canadaevent. What could be better than seeing her family, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps witnessing a momentous event and pioneering spirit. Loyalty having the opportunity to take photographs of the Queen is as ardent here as back home in setting for ''Wuthering Heights'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? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk> Or could it?
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