The Lantern's Dance: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Or more probably, he had started with realism and been hunting for the abstract essence of the seaside experience.

Arthur Conan Doyle had given the world precisely three facts about Sherlock Holmes’ background. First, that he had an older brother named Mycroft, who was something high and enigmatic in the British government (read: a spymaster). Next, that the Holmes family were English “country squires” (that is, not quite aristocracy). Finally, that his grandmo

This back-and-forth is called tacking. Which, though it covers more distance, makes for faster speed in the end.”

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