Book review sherlock holmes in america series#

Douglas targeted? In America, he joins up with a group called the Scrowrers (the corrupted Freemen lodge and affiliates). Douglas is alive, but Holmes does not know if it is true therefore, he sets up a police raid (in a characteristically dramatic fashion), to catch the tricksters red-handed.ĥ. All of them align to create the picture that Mr. Fourth, Barker's slipper is found to be an exact match to the blood-print on the windowsill. Second, the killer-who is presumed to have escaped at this time in the story-leaves his bike. First, the servants testimonies and the testimonies of Barker and Mrs. How does Holmes solve the puzzle? He strikes upon a few key points of evidence. For example, Holmes questions the lack of a second dumb-bell to exercise with, which eventually leads him to the discovery of Baldwin's clothes and dagger.Ĥ. It was all done in a rather haphazard way, and their failures seem to be the key to Holmes' success. How did Douglas, his wife, and his friend, hide the killing? None of the servants heard the shotgun blast, so none came to see the corpse therefore, the group were able to disguise the body as Douglas, throw the original clothes outside into the moat, put a fake bloody-footprint on the windowsill, and create a plan to trick the servants into thinking it was a murder. How was Baldwin killed? Baldwin is killed accidently in a fight with Douglas (who he intended to assassinate) a sawed-off, double-barreled shotgun is accidently fired in his face, maiming it completely.ģ. The main mystery, however, goes like this: Douglas hid himself after killing a former rival and member of a corrupted Freemen's lodge, Baldwin, having thought that, under English law, his act would be considered murder.Ģ. At least, not until the final few paragraphs, where we learn he has been professionally murdered by what Holmes assumes to be the master of crime, Professor Moriarty.

Book review sherlock holmes in america series#

I won’t give the story away, but I was completely hooked! I know that Lane is planning a long series and since I cannot yet have the next, I’m trying some other Sherlock writers. Sherlock and his mentor follow Booth across the ocean and end up in America where Sherlock thwarts an attempt to restart the Civil War. In this particular story, Sherlock becomes involved, through his older brother Mycroft, in obstructing a plot involving John Wilkes Booth and a band of Confederates! This is after the Lincoln assassination, and Booth is not dead but hiding out in England. If you are familiar with the Sherlock of Arthur Conan Doyle, then even in seemingly insignificant details of the story, you will find a familiar Sherlock, but in this case, he is very young and in development. His logical and analytical, and especially his deductive reasoning shines through. For example, he comes up with the idea of keeping his knowledge in an alphabetical encyclopedia. Here is where he learns to play the violin, he tries out different disguises, and he develops methods to compensate for memory.

In both books we see so many of the igniting forces in Sherlock’s methods and in the development of his personality. Book one of the series is entitled Death Cloud and I recommend that as well, but I’m reviewing book two. Andrew Lane received approval from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate to write the tales of Sherlock Holmes as a teenager.