The Baker Street Babes

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The third volume in the Arrowood series, after Arrowood and The Murder Pit, is set in the summer of 1896. It is seethingly hot and journalist turned private detective William Arrowood is out of money due to a lack of paying jobs. The events are told by Arrowood’s companion and occasional strongman, Norman Barnett, and once more we delve into the grimy and violent London south of the river.

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Mick Finlay’s second novel about Sherlock Holmes’s gritty, south of the river-living rival detective William Arrowood is set in early January, 1896. Everything is cold, frozen and grey, and things aren’t looking too good for the journalist-turned-private detective and his sidekick, strongman and...

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When I first read about Arrowood as an anti-Holmes, I was intrigued. Of course Sherlock Holmes himself constantly criticizes fictional detectives, and Mick Finlay set out to create a character who has his own methods of solving cases, and who happens to severely dislike Sherlock Holmes.

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