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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571370977|title=The Lock-Up|author=David ChadwickJohn Banville|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529337968|title=Liberty BazaarIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is sent due to Britain start work as an envoy to raise awareness and funds from a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the English aristocracy NHS is born. She'll be working for his southern brothers Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in arms in the American Civil Wartheir GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes The hardest part of the job will be to England persuade people that the services she offers really are free and immediately becomes an icon that they don't have to do anything to qualify for the liberal elitethem. However soon Trinity realises there's more to Some of the English support than just talk. She uncovers problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a secret – and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for problem of her homeland, not to mention dangerous consequences for own which might give hersome insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd057136358X|title=Savage MagicApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=4.5

|summary=LondonTerry Tice was a hitman, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wifealthough he didn't think of himself in those terms. SheHe saw what he did as ''s left him, taking their daughter to live with her cousin in a very uncousinly waymatter of making things tidy''. Yet her distance doesnI couldn't prevent her discussing resist the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft and seem to be taking a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worriedthought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He calls upon Constable Horton enjoyed his job, something which occurred to investigate… this is him when he was in Burma with the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged army ''where he got the chance to enter one kill a lot of the more exclusive madhouseslittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasnHe was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't forgiven his superior for it. However, as know the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by purpose of a murder case swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce bubbles in importance. the ''morning''? The important thing for each It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of them has become survivaltaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vaughn EntwhistleB08Z8BMZ7H|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two Mystery of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing|author= Anita Davison|title= Murder on the MinneapolisA P McGrath|rating= 54

|summary=Governess Flora Maguire is sailing from New York to England We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the SS Minneapolis, entrusted with munus - the games put on for the task amusement of returning her teenage charge, Eddie back home to boarding schoolthe populace. Unfortunately for Flora, The remuneration isn't high but the ship is first-class only, so she spends work gives the first night aboard stowed away in her cabin, acutely aware doctor a feeling of her lower social statusvirtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. Her intention to stay out of It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the limelight is thwarted charge hands and whenwe first see them, during a solitary stroll along they're sprinkling gold dust onto the deck, she discovers a dead body at the bottom of the companionwaylions' manes to make them look more impressive. The ship staff hastily conclude that this is a tragic accident, but Flora has other ideas sagitarii are the archers and decides the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to conduct her own investigationfight for their lives with the wild animals. Is there a murderer aboard ship? And if so Today, is Flora making herself a prime target by poking her nose into other peopleit's affairs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208264</amazonuk>the crocodiles.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anthony Quinn1529337925|title= Curtain Call|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime The Mirror Dance (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary= London, 1936. Nina Land is a West End actress, and she is spending her afternoon in a hotel room with a married man. When she spots the face of the man the newspapers have named “The Tie-Pin Killer”, she faces a huge dilemma – will she report the man to the police, and risk her career and the reputation of her lover? Or will she stay quiet, and risk the lives of innocent girls?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593238</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=MRC Kasasian|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=While It was the best personal detective in August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the known Victorian world (in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on a case, his ward March is left to her own devicesthe sofa. As luck would have it, one The thought of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relativework was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. March visits Saturn Villa with She was the publisher of a sense magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of curiosity her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forgether sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Let Sandy Bissett's hope request was simple: she knows wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>solicitor to do the same job.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander WilsonB08LKT7HSR|title=Wallace of Murder in the Secret ServiceBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=This is In December 1933 the third remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the re-issued series authored by cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the former soldier, spy murder of Elowed and Professor of English Literaturehis half-brother, without whom it is saidDenzil Hammett, therewhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay'd have been no Bonds long search for her mother, no Smiley, no Bournewho disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sara Sheridan|title= British Bulldog |rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= As a decade, the fifties doesn't attract much attention from authors and scriptwriters - it's dull and grey in comparison with the vivid horrors of war and the colourful extravagance of the sixties. But World War II left a long shadow, and this, the fourth instalment in this excellent series, takes us deep into past life of ex-intelligence agent Mirabelle Bevan, and the sorrow and the blighted love she has so desperately fought to hide from public gaze soon becomes hopelessly entangled with present deaths and danger. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A few months after we left Tom in the 1720s we return to find him living in sin and love with Kitty. Or it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bit. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James Fleet, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him in the ways of being a gentleman. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy and a brush with the country's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuse, no matter how hard he tries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=M J CarterStephen Clarke|title=The Infidel StainSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= LondonThis is a spoof spy story, 1841that isn't about James Bond. Newly returned from India Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, Jeremiah Blake who dresses well and William Avery find life back in Victorian England difficult to settle into, having left a disconnected country travelled by pony 'likes the ladies' and trapwho works for the secret service, and returned to one but in the grip planning side of railway maniathings more than the active service. When Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a series of murders occurfemale spy called Margaux, all connected to and the presspair end up stranded in Normandy, Avery and Blake find themselves back with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in action. But with connections between the murdered resistance network, and those seeking revolution, it is a race against time Lemming desperately trying to find the killer before he strikes again. keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241146259</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl0349423083|title=The Last BookaneerDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes a decent living Kate 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 Barleycorn Brewery in 19th century LondonMasham. However Something is going wrong with his business acquaintance Davenport has a plan and he'd like Kate to aid look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his prosperity. Hot literary property Robert Louis Stevenson is dying on Upolonephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a Samoan island, having just written his final potential masterpiecetrip to Germany before long. Therefore all Davenport has James went to do is to steal it, bringing it back see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to publishing glory and self-aggrandisementmake. The only problems are William is worried that the enabling legal loophole James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is about going to close and bring back a German bride but he's not d like the only one with business to be ship-shape before his eye on that particular prize. And Fergins? He's going too, whether he wants to or notnephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556198</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Thynne 0241433568|title=A War of FlowersEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=A War of Flowers is the third of Jane ThynneIt's thoroughly researched 1930 and beautifully written novels of Nazi Berlin from the female point of view. Reading them is an immersive experience; the joy of the book is in location, description, comment. The action does not rush but the ending expertly pulls plot strings together Megan and has a wow factor that will leave the reader eager for more. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Simmons|title=The Fifth Heart|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On a rainy night Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about to end it allSpain. Next It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do the same. Instead of jumping, Holmes drags James off for have a drink rest and decides that they will go then he wants to America talk to solve a 17-year-old murder caseMegan and Henry about something serious. The supposed victim, socialite Clover Adams, is believed to have committed suicide but Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't deter Sherlockemerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. He's off, Henry James is going with him and How can thathave happened? There's that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jayne Anne Phillips|title=Quiet Dell|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary= Chicago – 1931. Asta Eicher is a widow, with three children and a crippling sense of loneliness. When Harry Powers asks her to marry him, she is delighted – and no one else in the new family soon leave in order to travel to West Virginia. They are never seen again. Back in Chicagohouse, Emily Thornhill is so one of them must be the few women journalists in Chicago, and is sent to investigate the disappearance, trying to establish what happened to the family. As she becomes ever deeper involved with the investigation, Emily begins to discover things she never expected – both about the case, and herselfkiller. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Kerr1473682401|title=The Lady from ZagrebTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=''Death by Misadventure''.' This is the official verdict as to Those who were with us at the cause end of death of Lady Lavinia Truelove, trampled to death [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by a notoriously ill-tempered horse, which she foolishly tried Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to approach in its stallMallory Dunnoch. The horse panicked and reacted badly, resulting in a gruesome and bloody attack, witnessed by two boys from the village. Most people would dismiss the event as a tragic accident, but detective Joe Sandilands suspects that this could be cold-blooded murder. Could his judgement be clouded by the fact that he has a very personal axe to grind with the They'grieving' widower, who has been showing increasing attentiveness to Dorcas, the girl he plans to marry?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leslie Charteris re now married and John Telfer (narrator)|title=Enter the Saint|rating=4Mallory is having twins.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= When you think they arrive no one can doubt the charms of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties there's a temptation to believe that the books might not be, well, top drawerLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, but that would be a mistakeEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. The first of There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they'The Saint'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one re staying with Dandy and this collection of stories is dated 1930Hugh. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meetDandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, but had not taken up the subtleties of chance to look into a problem at the slightly world-weary man of the world, all-knowing about the evils Cramond ferry when it was offered to which men (and women) can sinkthem twice before, but they're all there. Admittedly suddenly the Saint is more boisterous and less subtle than he will become - but that speaks more about possibility of being out of the later works than this bookhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne Seishi Yokomizo and Frank Wynne Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Loser's CornerThe Honjin Murders

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Georges CrozatTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. HeFor those who need more, here is the extra background – we's a policeman re in rural Japan in Paris, who boxes on the side1930s. After a bout that leads to The oldest son of an almost embarrassing victoryesteemed family is belatedly getting married, he although the whole affair is made two offers really not as ostentatious as it might be – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sporthardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georgesone thing. Either way, then some kind of status the celebrations have gone ahead as assistant – trainingplanned, guiding, profiteering; only for the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone wedded couple to be slashed to do an enemy a mischief with death in their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose private annexe before the lattersun rises on their marriage. In alternating chapters, however, we're What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the 1950sneighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a rookie to traditional musical instrument at the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing time of the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violencecrime, even if he this case has a very different attitude to lot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G M Best B07XLM3SM6|title=The Barchster Murders|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Anthony Trollope was very taken with Barchester when he first visited the city, but pausing to look out Murder at a pleasant view he discovered the body of Thomas Rider, a bedesman at Hiram's Hospital. At first it was suspected that Trollope might have been the murderer - for this was no natural death, but a stabbing - but once he proved that he was a professional man there on business for the first time, he found himself drawn into the investigation. There is a secret which the warden, the Reverend Septimus Harding has hidden for well over a decade and it looks as though Rider might have been murdered to prevent the secret coming out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208086</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDolphin Hotel|author=Rory Clements|title=The Queen's ManHelena Dixon

|summary=Elizabethan England Elowed Underhay was just twenty- a murkyseven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, dirty world full leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of religious strife her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and violentthe conclusion was that she was dead, short livesmainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Queen Elizabeth sits on Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the throne, but Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her seat is by no means safe - grandmother had to leave to look after her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up in Sheffield Castlesister who was ill. Unable She was reluctant to leave, but by no means unable to plot Kitty in charge - and scheme Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with her supportersthe mix of holidaymakers, Mary wishes to reclaim what boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she believes is rightfully hers - 's done every job in the thronehotel. But even And she particularly cannot be prepared for understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the dark twists and new plots that arisehotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler0349423067|title=A Cruel Necessity The Body on the Train (A John Grey Historical MysteryKate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=Essex 1657: CromwellFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Republic is 8 years oldCross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. While John Grey sleeps off a good night In early March 1929, one of drink under the eaves porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a cottageman, a Royalist spy is murdered down the roadstripped naked and with no means of identification. A trainee lawyer, John also enjoys Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the science services of investigation Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and so starts looking for clues that will connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead him to the murdererthey needed. Although it's Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not easy: strange happenings occurred come to terms with the fact that night and Grey is having trouble persuading others of what he sawshe was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. Meanwhile his mother has He was reluctant to give her all the perfect match for himinformation which the police held. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Sansom1472127110|title=Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake)Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan

|summary=The reign of Henry VIII is drawing to a close. It's heresy to speculate on Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the death of war, and not always for the kingbetter. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, but obvious to anyone who sees the bloated man lover who can barely walk that died before he cannot have much longercould leave his wife. Matthew Shardlake is still drawn As time went by she found in herself an ability to the queen - Catherine Parr as was - but he'd prefer to avoid court politics particularly when there's someone as suggestible solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and changeable as Henry on the throne. Ultimately though he doesn't feel that he has much choice when he's summoned determined young woman called Vesta who refused to Whitehall Palace. It seems that the queen has let a problem which could put little thing like racial prejudice stop her life doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in danger - along with the lives arms of all those who are seen as her supportersa rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1912374439|title=Murder at the BrightwellThe Courier|author=Ashley WeaverKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=43.5

|summary=It probably helps Nazi-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 Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a fan of Agatha Christie. It probably helps young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to absolutely adore the sheer selfish indulgence help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and style of the 1930s. It probably helps to just accept the ''rich'' as late 1960s, when great consternation is being completely divorced from real lifefelt. It definitely helps if you're happy to take your crime as In this timeline, a puzzlemaverick agent is back in town, rather than one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as heart-rendinga young family, gut-wrenching rendition of reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749017317</amazonuk>except he was thought by all to have died in the War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786075431|title=Queen of HeartsMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Rhys BowenMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=23.5

|summary=Lady Georgiana RannochMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, 35th in line for the British throneand keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, may know how to navigate upper class societylife is pretty good, but there arenshe knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people't s life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many acceptable career choices for people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a penniless almost royalroof over their heads. So when One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her mothercharitable home. I say ''was'', famous actress Claire Danielsfor she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, invites her on dead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a transatlantic cruisecharity home, Georgie is looking forwards and to living what end? And why does Zofia feel the highlife and relaxing need to make a name for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M4ZGVBG</amazonuk>herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Davies1786893762|title=Havana SleepingThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=In A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the London of World War One there case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a man amongst previous case, where the masses cowering from the nightly Zeppelin raids who knows death child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a lot more than manyprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. He This detective is grieving for his nephewa woman, lost to and the killing fields of France; he setting is pining for his wifeVictorian London, evacuated to with all the country; rich and he is both grieving colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and pining scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a past where he was fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more activethan a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more demonstrably brave unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and verifiably useful – a past whose main constituent part has also gone to stout, shiny boots, but the countrysidetobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to be do!) is mixed with a beekeeper near Brightonnugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. That man The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is Dr Watsonby the by. Her housemaid, and the otherbeing seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, is Sherlock Holmes. Here theythere're reunited at s the behest of Mycroftghost. Ruby Doyle, for three individual deaths provide a thorn in the side of his secret operationsworld-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and only Holmes can pluck it out with his singular talents. But when the evidence in the case so often revolves around mysterious photographs claiming to be of people's soulsclear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, there is a hint that this new modern age is a step too far for the once-retired sleuthing friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160023</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349414327|title=The First HorsemanA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=DK WilsonFrances Brody

|summary=British author Derek Wilson is one with Even detectives need a tremendously long bibliography as a Historianbreak and for Kate Shackleton, and as photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an author of fiction. He brings all of that to '''The First Horseman'''outing, a resounding success that blends fact and fiction Kate was keen to create a gripping, fast moving Tudor crime story that educates as well as fascinates, moving from take the merchants of Cheapside opportunity to the whores of Southwarkvisit Haworth and Stanbury, and mixing with figures such as Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=CC Humphreys|title=Plague|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Highwayman Captain William Coke stops a carriage in not least because the line deeds of his chosen career and soon discovers he's not the first to have assailed Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it. The driver is dead and all those within have been brutally skewered. He flees the scene but unfortunately leaves can become a pistol behind. This is all thief-taker Pitman needs to arouse his interest museum and attempt to track her parents will be there for the Captain down with a noose in mindevent. Meanwhile nature has an equally random mode of death that's soon to What could be let loose on London. This is 1665 better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the Great Plague is about opportunity to begin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891423</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Hamilton|title=Stalemate|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In take photographs of the summer of 1930 Walter Bruce was told that he had an incurable illness. With nursing care and an easier job he might have a few more years to live - but without them he had a matter of months. The solution would seem straightforward but Bruce had a wife - and she demanded to be setting for ''keptWuthering Heights'' and was far too selfish to be his nurse? Nothing could go wrong. Life ''might'' have continued much as Or could it was, but Bruce discovered that his wife had been deceiving him about her age and background - and with ''two'' of his business colleagues. The solution was obvious: he would devise the perfect murder and then live out his final years in comfort. Bruce was a chess player and he approached the problem much as he would a game of chess - but even the best plans rarely survive contact with reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178132204X</amazonuk>?