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    Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black

    By June Thomson

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    The infamous Sherlock Holmes, now in his retirement, has turned his attention to his beekeeping hobby. But when a shadowy figure is seen walking below the cliffs one night, Holmes cannot resist the temptation of solving one more mystery. He summons his old flatmate and confidante Dr Watson to help. Against the backdrop of the stormy Sussex coast, desirable women and suspicious men weave an engaging and complex case.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateJul 23, 2015
    ISBN9780749018436
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    June Thomson

    JUNE THOMSON, a former teacher, has published over twenty crime novels including other pastiches of Holmes' short stories available from Allison & Busby. Her books have been translated into many languages. She lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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    • 3/5
      Ok but not great. Not much of a mystery really either. Holmes and Watson ring true however but I also have some issues with the casual use of motor cars and vans in 1908. It feels like the author has not done her research properly but that is a nitpick.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing to me. Didn't hold my attention well. Seemed as if the story could have been told effectively in fewer pages and just was not compelling.
    • 3/5
      This is a full length Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by an author who has produced several sets of short stories in this genre, which I have mostly liked. This novel, however, was disappointing. Despite starting quite strongly with good descriptions of the Sussex coast, where Holmes has retired to keep bees, and what looked like a decent air of mystery being built up, it never really developed and the plot resolution around tensions between the generations of a local family was not really a mystery at all and quite mundane, albeit sad. There were discrepancies between dates in the background detail in some cases and I was also irritated, as I was in one of the author's short stories, about a situation where Holmes was speculating about future women bishops and Prime Ministers in a way that neither he nor almost certainly anyone else could plausibly have foreseen in 1908 - just too knowing and jarring. Finally, there seem to be rather a lot of cars around for 1908, even in descriptions of events taking place many years earlier than that date.