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"Raw panic seemed to overcome Holmes' expression. I could only imagine that he suddenly foresaw the inexorable conclusion as vividly as any of his past deductions. We were about to face our own deaths!"
A youthful Sherlock Holmes is recuperating from the ordeal destined to be chronicled by Dr. Watson as A Study in Scarlet. Holmes' next adventure, the lost adventure, starts mundanely enough with the theft of a typewriter but for one outré fact: The death of the beautiful supplicant's manservant. More thefts and purloined documents carry Holmes and Watson across Europe on the Orient Express in search of the truth. A devilishly clever cipher and a murdered sailor lead Holmes to a horrifying conclusion.
Travel with the great detective and Dr. Watson from the steaming jungles of the Sundra Strait to long forgotten caverns beneath London to face a new arch villain, Lofcadio Hearseborne III, and the greatest terror of their lives.
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Ian Ayres
reviewed Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra on May 10, 2013
Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra
HORNSWOGGLED by Donis Casey (Mystery Fiction, cozy) 2.5 star rating
I so enjoyed the first in this series, The Old Buzzard Had it Coming, when I read it in 2010. There was a clever mystery, and Alifair Tucker seemed a down-to-earth and intelligent protagonist.
It's awful how long it takes me to get back to a series that I want to continue. But in this case, I should have postponed it indefinitely. The mystery wasn't at all fairly clued and the body was moved surreptitiously so many times by so many different people that the book reminded me of the period English farces I watched at the Shaw Festival decades ago. Only the book wasn't funny.
Points for the period setting (1912 Oklahoma) and dealing with thorny family issues.
Read this if: you're determined to read everything in this series; or you'd enjoy the Oklahoma setting enough to overcome the plot flaws. 2½ stars
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