From the Bookshelf of The Literary Nerd Reading Challenge 2014: The Year of Holmes…
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The second novel starring the illustrious Sherlock Holmes is a mash up of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and The Moonstone. In it you will find many of the tropes of any awesome detective story. It's still a pretty darned amazing and entertaining book.
Things That Surprised me...although, I suppose, they really shouldn't have:
1] Mary is a pretty awesome character, she is more than Conan Doyle's Yoko (sorry, Yoko). I like that she is calm and patient. I like that she is reserved and understated a ...more
Things That Surprised me...although, I suppose, they really shouldn't have:
1] Mary is a pretty awesome character, she is more than Conan Doyle's Yoko (sorry, Yoko). I like that she is calm and patient. I like that she is reserved and understated a ...more