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Elementary, my dear Douglas.

January 8, 2016 by BigRigBB 1 Comment

As an avid fan of anything basketball- playing, watching, discussing, daydreaming about playing in the NBA’s Celebrity All-Star game- picking a book by the NBA’s all-time leading scorer as my first Cannonball Read seemed like a no-brainer. But Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse’s Mycroft Holmes has as much basketball in it as Donald Trump has class, which is to say, none.  However, that doesn’t mean the authors are out of their depth. Abdul-Jabbar and Waterhouse spin an engaging tale of Sherlock’s older brother embarking on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: CBR8, historical fiction, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mycroft Holmes, mystery

BigRigBB's CBR8 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: CBR8, historical fiction, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mycroft Holmes, mystery ·
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