I had so much fun reading this, and it was much better than I thought it was going to be. It totally charmed me. It’s a good thing Laurie King is such a good writer, and is so good at creating atmosphere and characters you can love, because she was in real danger of stepping in that quicksand trap some writers get stuck and die in, where they take something truly beloved and either try to insert themselves, or completely mangle the original thing that […]
One In A Crowd
The story itself is an odd hodgepodge of ideas, mixing cruel noblemen, Scottish Nationalism, mysterious deaths, and the possibility of supernatural forces at work (which in itself is a dubious idea in Sherlock’s world, given his firm adherence to practicality and logic).
John Watson’s Ubi Sunt the novel
This story takes place as a series of flashbacks recounted by an ageing John Watson. Many of the characters from the original Sherlock Holmes stories have died, and Watson is putting down one more that had not been told during Holmes’ lifetime. An art dealer comes to Holmes and Watson for help, and the two detectives are drawn into a second mystery when three key witness-suspects are killed, one apparently by Holmes himself. Holmes is arrested and put in prison, but eventually escapes to join […]
The beginning of the Anna Kronberg thriller series
Dr. Anton Kronberg, renowned bacteriologist, receives word that he is needed at what is believed to be a crime scene. A corpse with cholera has been dumped into the waterworks – was it an attempt to infect London? Another clever person has been summoned as well: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes figures something out about Dr. Kronberg that no one else knows. He’s a [spoiler]. Dr. Kronberg’s secret could get the good doctor arrested, and possibly even killed. It turns out the man didn’t die of cholera, but […]
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