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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML: "In a remarkable performance, Steve West becomes Dr. John Watson, Jr...A top-notch mystery filled with clever twists and winning characters." �?? AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner In the third audiobook of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale. Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England's military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security. The police are frantic to find Ainsworth before the Germans can use him to decode all of England's undeciphered messages. Ainsworth must be found at all costs and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him. USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg returns with another puzzling case for the daughter of Sherlock Holmes to unravel in this exciting mystery sure to be enjoyed by fans of Sherlock Holmes.… (more)
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I received a digital ARC via NetGalley.
A thoroughly mezmerizing chase that piles fact upon fact with Sherlock Holme's daughter Joanne smoking Turkish cigarettes and deducing information from both what is present and what is not.
The aside factor of her son Johnny coming home from Eton declaring that he only needs a
It's November 1915. An awfully clever, high ranking codebreaker, has gone missing and as Joanne, her now husband John Watson, and her father-in-law, Dr. Watson go on the hunt the bodies pile up. Joanne deduces that Alistair Ainsworth, "was not taken prisoner in his workplace, but somewhere outside the agency, preferably in a secluded location where no one could see the capture or hear his cry."
The logical development around clues and the pursuit of the these by Joanne is a thing of beauty, as the mystery builds towards resolution. As Joanne points out clues, "will not be handed down to you on a platter ... they must be sought and placed in order." She does this with breathtaking accuracy.
Roles of the Holmsian characters have switched somewhat adding a certain piquancy to the work. Quite an invigorating read and another excellent series that joins the many Holmsian spinoffs.
A St. Martin's Press ARC via NetGalley
Joanna and the Watsons must find him before he reveals any secrets.
An enjoyable and interesting well-written mystery, easily read as a standalone story.
A NetGalley Book
However, with that caveat, this book is eminently readable. The writer plays fair with the mystery;
I'd recommend this series for open-minded fans of Sherlock Holmes or anyone who enjoys historical mysteries.