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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie Fox0571370977|title=Elijah's MermaidThe Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=4.5
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|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher and old friend Frederick Hall. Hall has discovered LambIt's small grandchildren, Lily 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 Elijahliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, in a London home Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for foundlingswhat happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. LambThey's son Gabriel had died after re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappeared. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discoveryyoung, Jewish scholar, Augustus adopts the twinsRosa Jacobs, raising them is found in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland Housea lock-up. There the children growAt first, happy and lovedit looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Carnac1529337968|title=The Autobiography In Place of Jack the RipperFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=3.5
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|summary=The It''Autobiography'' presents itself s July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the Ripper’s story told from his own perspectivefollowing morning - on the day that the NHS is born. The son of an impoverished doctor, young Carnac has a childhood obsession She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with blood those non-medical problems which a series affect their health. The hardest part of unfortunate events morphs into a full-blown desire the job will be to slit human throats. It’s persuade people that the typical Victorian coming-of-age story (from birth, to school, then first love services she offers really are free and finally adulthood) with a twist, in that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the path Carnac’s on leads him to become not problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a responsible adult but the most famous murderer problem of the nineteenth centuryher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kylie Fitzpatrick057136358X|title=The Silver ThreadApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's 1840 and Rhia Mahoney, daughter of an Irish merchant specialising in local linen, has Terry Tice was a comfortable life. All that changeshitman, however, as her fatheralthough he didn's warehouse burns down, taking his faltering business with it, ensuring Rhia must make her own way in the world. Via family connections she comes to England and the home t think of Quaker widow Antonia Blake. The idea is that Antonia will protect Rhia whilst she seeks a position as governess himself in bustling, alien Londonthose terms. But rather than residing in a sanctuary, her problems worsen He saw what he did as she's enveloped in 'a mystery leading to transportation despite her innocencematter of making things tidy''. The only things holding her life together are I couldn't resist the letters she writes to her dearly departed grandmother, her artistic skill and a determination to discover who wants her gone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800127</amazonuk>}} {{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, thought that he receives was an invitation to attend the annual Christmas house-party at Hannesford Court, the stately home extreme version of Sir Robert and Lady StansburyMarie Kondo. He used enjoyed his job, something which occurred 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-him when he was in-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 Burma with the devastating realisation that army ''where he's one got the chance to kill a lot of the very few men in their set to return alive and entire, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford little yellow fellows and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such had a gatheringfine old time''. Everyone believes it He was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint spending a lot of hidden secrets. Along time with her Ladyship's former companion, Anne (Percy Antrobus - 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>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Engelmann|title=The Stockholm Octavo|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a Customs and Excise couldn'Sekretairet understand why Terry didn' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, t know the purpose of a bachelor's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel swizzle stick - surely hewouldn's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up t drink champagne with bubbles in 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 'Octavomorning'', a fortune-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 EmilIt was after Percy's future, but has become an Octavo to save death that he saw the whole benefits of Swedentaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce MacbainB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath
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|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isnWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he't s the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the most popular person in Romepopulace. He may be a The remuneration isn't high ranking politician with but the work gives the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's doctor a spy, ambitious feeling of virtue and not always using hones his power and position for goodskills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. When Verpa is discovered, unceremoniously and repeatedly stabbed in his well-guarded bedroom, there It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are many who sigh with relief. However, the murderer must still be found charge hands and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the Younger as history will dub him) lions' manes to investigatemake them look more impressive. Pliny isn't a natural but reluctantly takes on The sagitarii are the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that archers and the culprit must be found before beastiarii are the end of condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the Roman Games, giving Pliny 15 dayswild animals. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into RomeToday, it's filthy underbelly of cults, prostitution and other things he wasn't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poetthe crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337925|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
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|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to full detective, have the fire lit and continues Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to solve cases with his usual mix leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of dogged determination and flairwork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Toronto at She was the end publisher of the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between magazine and had been told that the rich and man running the poor, Punch and Judy show in the fact that many 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 show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the latter group are utterly destitute leads to all manner man about infringement of crimes, great copyright - and Dandy and smallAlex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John KerrB08LKT7HSR|title=Fell Murder in the AngelsBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon
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|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the late nineteenth centurycellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. She Ezekiel Hamett was born Henderson but married Robert Castello sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and quickly came to realise that he his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was an adulterer with a drink problemalso discovered. A womanKitty Underhay's place long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was thought to be with her husband - even by Ceciliaover. Now she's wealthy parents - but they recognised determined that forcing the man responsible for her to go back to him could murder will be problematical. As a compromise she was sent to Malvern brought 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 hisjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=While This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal in one case ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in depth, there’s always room for another title at the other end planning side of things more than the spectrumactive service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, dealing and the pair end up stranded in brief Normandy, with Margaux on a variety of murders over desperate mission to unearth traitors in the years.resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay0349423083|title=Time Death and Tidethe Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A ship is wrecked on the coast of 16th century ScotlandKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, the crew goneably assisted by Jim Sykes, the only man on board dying who lives in Woodhouse and a windmill lashed to its deckher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. What happened? She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. What sort of illness does Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it carry? And, more importantly for the towndiscreetly: he's peoplehoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, who gets will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to keep see what the windmill? continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. ItWilliam is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit 's 'too'' much or is going to bring back a tough one, German bride but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on he'd like the casebusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Stashower0241433568|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=There It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are two things you need to know about Stashowerstaying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much more importantly, at lunch: he is utterly certain of his own ability 's going to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in have a minor way, in a murder, rest and then he immediately decides it is up wants to him talk to solve the caseMegan and Henry about something serious. It Only it never occurs to him gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he might fail's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, because that is simply not an option for so one of them must be the Great Houdinikiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1473682401|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4.5|genre=Crime The Turning Tide (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary=The fourth book in the series of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the others, in Toronto. Religion, money and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not to mention his love life, are played out against the sense of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the Dragon's Tail: Murdoch MysteriesCatriona McPherson
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|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving for the fiancée Those who died over a year before. He busies himself, when he is not working, were with training for us at the police sports' day, learning to dance, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges in the next-door room. She is a charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan James|title=Unsinkable|rating=4|genre=Crime end of [[A Step So Grave (HistoricalDandy Gilver)by Catriona McPherson|summary=This year sees the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and several books, for both children and adults, are being published based on the story of the doomed ship. In this particular book the fact A Step So Grave]] will remember that we already know fate of the majority of the travellers adds a whole new level of tension Donald was engaged to a story which is already an exciting thrillerMallory Dunnoch. Not only They're now married and Mallory is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, and more crucially: will the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Siciliano|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver |rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving the upper class revellers shockedhaving twins. When, over they arrive no one can doubt the next few years, misfortune befalls several charms of the party-goersLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows there's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock HolmesEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. It There are two drawbacks: they's a slightly different version of Holmes from that were noisy and they've come to expect, thoughre staying with Dandy and Hugh. The Dandy and her detectivepartner, far from being an emotionless manAlec Osborne, is capable of feeling strongly for had not taken up the right woman - could chance to look into a problem at the detective find love as well as Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the answer to possibility of being out of the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>house at Gilverton seems irresistible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sax RohmerSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuHonjin Murders
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Dr Petrie To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is surprised, but pleased, enough to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned make the book one to Englandread; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. But this For those who need more, here is no mere pleasure visit the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the former Scotland Yard man 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is on belatedly getting married, although the trail of Fu Manchuwhole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, a Chinese doctor what with ''it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one 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 brains sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of any three men his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of genius''. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against traditional musical instrument at the time to stop of the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading crime, this case has a lot of the East to world domination!peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen JenningsB07XLM3SM6|title=Except Murder at the Dying: Murdoch MysteriesDolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon
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|summary=Victorian detective novels set Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in Britain are fairly commonJune 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and some of the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this categoryconclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. The Murdoch stories, however, Kitty has come from a different angle, being placed (for to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the most part) Dolphin Hotel in Canada, Dartmouth with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirither grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. Loyalty She was reluctant to the Queen is as ardent here as back home leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the old country'mix of holidaymakers, but there is a rawness boating people and a sense the naval college on the edge of space 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 to these novels which is due in large part keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to their settingtake charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Dickens0349423067|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Dr Watson is happy From Christmas to be returning Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to Lyme RegisKing's Cross, and arriving before dawn so that the woman he lovesforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. He gets more than he bargained forIn early March 1929, thoughone of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, as he is quickly embroiled in stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a series of killings which bear strange resemblances to some dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the cases he hope that her knowledge and Holmes have been involved connections inYorkshire would give them the lead they needed. The great detective joins him, Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with Lestrade following to assist in their investigations, and the trio realise fact that they are she was now a woman experienced in dealing with a haunting figure from their past.murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780921004</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ruffle1472127110|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd EditionIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Taking a rare holiday on Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the Dorsetshire coastwar, Dr Watson manages to persuade Sherlock Holmes to join himand not always for the better. Delighted to spend time with his old friend Godfrey JacobsWhen she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and charmed secretly grieving for Jack, the lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by widowed boarding house proprietor Mrs Heidlershe found in herself an ability to solve crimes, the good doctor is set for a pleasant made friends including an ebullient and relaxing stay – until mysterious events occur, pointing determined young woman called Vesta who refused to an unimaginable evillet a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the game’s afoot once more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920563</amazonuk>arms of a rather charming policeman.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Park Bridges1912374439|title=My Dear WatsonThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=43.5
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|summary=Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I'My Dear Watson'' is written by ve told you who did it – the hand of HolmesNazis, Lucy Holmessurely? Well, whom the world came that certainly has to remain to know as Sherlock. Yesbe seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, the well-loved detective is when a female cross-dresser but with good reason. The young Lucywoman sees her father arrested, having watched and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her mother die tragically, rushed off best friend to live with help – not knowing she will never see her brotheralive again, Mycroftand the late 1960s, at universitywhen great consternation is being felt. In order to staythis timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, undetected (no pun intended)one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she had to dress and he lived together with their baby as a man. Being slight and gamineyoung family, this wasn’t difficult and, after a while, she preferred the lifestyle. Watson hasn’t seen through the disguise, continuing except he was thought by all to live with Holmes between marriages as they combat the odds and solve crimes have died in (or despite) the police.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Williams1786075431|title=The Pleasures of Men|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul is a woman with burdens. Living with her uncle in London’s East End during the reign of Queen Victoria, hers is a life that seems empty – yet in fact is full of things she is trying to push away. Filling her days has become a problem, so when a series of grisly murders begins, Catherine is drawn to the mystery of the Man of Crows in a way that seems bound to change her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Ben Pastor|title=Liar Moon|rating=4|genre=Crime Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Historicaltranslator)|summary=Near Verona, northern Italy, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policeman, known to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked to look into the death of one Vittorio Lisi, a prominent local fascist who was run over in his wheelchair on his own estate by a car. The number one suspect is his widow Claretta.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerry O'Hara|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In Transylvania
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=I normally start reviews with Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a brief plot summarymedical professor, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for she's intent on making herself known as a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes charitable lady, and the Affair in Transylvania'keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. From those seven words In 1890s Cracow, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this life is a Holmes meets Dracula storypretty good, and so we may as well move straight on to the burning question – is but she knows it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D E Meredith|title=The Devilcould always be better. Meanwhile, other people's Ribbon|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the London city due to lack of 1858hygiene, the Irish are the poorest of the poor, despised and feared by the English. They were forced many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to emigrate from keep a roof over their fatherland because of the famine which decimated the populationheads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and now the majority of them live staff in filthy, germ-ridden rookeriesher charitable home. Cholera is killing them off in their hundreds I say ''was'', and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet of their English masters, together with she has vanished. those Irishmen who have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as the hottest summer on record drags onOnly due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in a place the slums is ripe for violence and murdernear-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|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 Just who could be killing people in a book that practically sayscharity home, as its first words, the e-book version is better than this paper thingand to what end? This, despite setting up very much the wrong impression, is a gateway into the world of Sherlock Holmes - but And why does, as I say, blatantly show itself up as flawed, while Zofia feel the electronic version could count as need to make a very worthwhile app name for the Conan Doyle buff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane1786893762|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels0349414327|title=Shadowfall: A Novel Snapshot of Sherlock HolmesMurder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|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>
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