Mycroft and Sherlock
The Empty Birdcage : A Novel
Book - 2019
It is 1873, and Mycroft Holmes is in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims. Mycroft allows Sherlock to take the case, as he has been asked to find a missing person--the fiancé of the woman he loves. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for a murderer, both he and Mycroft will discover that the greed of others is at the root of the evil they are trying to unearth.
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Publisher:
London :, Titan Books,, 2019.
Copyright Date:
♭2019
ISBN:
9781785659300
Characteristics:
328 pages ;,25 cm.
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Empty birdcage : a novel
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Add a CommentEnjoyable reading. The biggest false note is the engagement of an impoverished Chinese noble family's heir to the daughter of a wealthy Hakka merchant. That's as likely as a Brahmin marrying an untouchable or an 1870's Southern aristocrat marrying the daughter of an ex-field slave.
This is, for the most part, a well-written and interesting addition to the Holmes canon, but this book falls short with the Sherlock part.