Dr. Mortimer and the Barking Man Mystery

Featuring the winning Dr. James Mortimer, who originally appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, and his very capable partner, Dr. Violet Branscombe, this new Victorian mystery novel haunts the criminal underworlds of London in 1891. It is the murder of an incognito Russian politico in Soho that takes the two estimable sleuths not only into the perilous, protected world of high-class prostitution but also down the dangerous streets of London's East End. There, a fiery young revolutionary with a violent past has been arrested by the police and subsequently condemned in the courts for the crime, on the basis of entirely circumstantial evidence. His sweetheart, to whom Violet owes her life, asks Dr. Mortimer to intervene. At the same time that this period mystery wonderfully evokes the sights and sounds and smells of a Victorian London that will appeal to the innumerable fans of the legendary Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, it also provides ingenious narrative twists and surprising turns of plot that make the solution of this classic whodunit singularly Dr. Mortimer's own.


Genre: Mystery