The Sherlockian
Ratings18
Average rating3.8
Murder at a Sherlock Holmes convention, one attendee hunts down the murderer with a beautiful journalist, accompanied by snippets into Conan Doyle's life. Kind of boring, but the history was well researched.
Fun story, enough connection to real history to make it believable. I'm not a Sherlock expert and the books doesn't expect you to be.
A very thoroughly researched ode not only to Sherlock, but to Sherlockian fans and Conan Doyle (and his fellow author friends!) as well.
I will say, I don't actually read a lot of historical fiction, so I never quite got the hang of two mysteries running side by side in two eras. It's really cool, don't get me wrong, but with the narrative switching every other chapter and the characters in both storylines doing lots of footwork, I found it a little taxing to keep up. Everything resolved satisfactorily, though. I was left with one or two little questions, but I still absolutely can appreciate the storytelling. Reading the notes at the end just made me appreciate it more, I think!