![]() ![]() Sherlockians may get a kick out of Charlotte’s sister, Livia, an aspiring writer, who wishes to write a story based on Charlotte’s exploits-a story that sounds a lot like Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet. Could Professor Moriarty be involved? Thomas writes with brio and creates appealing characters. Charlotte takes on the case, but what seems like a straightforward search for a missing person soon spirals into something altogether more complicated and sinister. Lady Ingram’s true love, whom she declined to marry because he wasn’t rich enough, has failed to show up for their annual rendezvous at London’s Albert Memorial. In this entertaining sequel, Lady Ingram, the wife of Charlotte’s friend and benefactor, Lord Ingram, needs help with a delicate matter that she wishes to keep secret from her husband. ![]() ![]() As Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, aided by the capable Mrs. Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. Potential clients are told they must consult Sherlock through his “sister” because of his ill health. The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas’s Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series. Watson, in order to allow her to practice her skills as a detective in the male-centric world of Victorian England. ![]() The first in Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series, A Study in Scarlet Women (2016), offered a clever a premise: that Sherlock Holmes is a fabrication created by Miss Charlotte Holmes and her coterie of accomplices, including Mrs. ![]()
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