The Women of Baker Street
09 February 2017Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
As Sherlock and Watson return from the famous Hound of the Baskervilles case, Mrs Hudson and Mary must face their own Hound, in the swirling fog of Victorian London . . .
When Mrs Hudson falls ill, she is taken into a private ward at St Barts hospital. Perhaps it is her over-active imagination, or her penchant for sniffing out secrets,...
Details
09 February 2017352 pages
9781509809714Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
I loved The House at Baker Street. This is the perfect post-Sherlock book: warm, compassionate, intelligent, with plot and language crafted in the style of the Master Conan Doyle himself. Martha Hudson and Mary Watson step off the page, finally given the life they always needed. It's the kind of book any of us would be proud to have written, but to have done so as a debut is little short of exceptional. Michelle Birkby is a name to watch as she rises to literary stardom - and I can already feel the television adaptation on the wayManda Scott, author of the Rome and Boudica series
Cleverly incorporating much-loved elements of the original Conan Doyle novels, this is a witty feminist take on the crime classicThe Lady, on The House at Baker Street
