Every short biography of a writer in the #CollinsCrimeClub series is like "after publishing 23 novels in the 1930s, he served with distinction in the Second World War, receiving the Victoria Cross while liberating Paris. During this time he published only sporadically, contributing 64 short stories

A- #BookReview: The Three Locks by Bonnie MacBird + Giveaway! My Review: I lost count of the total number of locks in this story early on, but I’m absolutely certain there were considerably more than three such items, particularly as more than one escape artist festooned himself with several at a time. Including Sherlock Holmes. But the first lock in this story is certainly the most poignant, not because it’s a trick lock - although it absolutely is - but because the key to it is locked in Dr.

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A- #BookReview: The Serpent Under by Bonnie MacBird My Review: There are a whole lot of serpents in this latest entry in the Sherlock Holmes Adventure series (after What Child is This?), of the reptilian as well as the human kind. A disconcerting number of them end up dead - again of both kinds - in this mystery that includes a surprisingly high body count for a detective who keeps his partner around, at least in part, because it’s Watson who is good with a gun.

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Grade A #BookReview: Unquiet Spirits by Bonnie MacBird My Review: The case, or cases, or perhaps that should be barrels or casks of cases, in which Holmes finds himself in this adventure are fully represented by the three items in the book’s subtitle. There is plenty of whisky in this multi-pronged affair, even if Holmes himself doesn’t drink very much of it at all. (It is ‘whisky’ and not ‘whiskey’ because that part of the story involves the production of Scottish whisky.

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