Heads-up: "The House at Baker Street"

[graycardinal]

Two or three Holmestice rounds back, I noted several recs for a new pastiche series by one Michelle Birkby -- The House at Baker Street, being the first volume, features Mrs. Hudson and Mary Morstan as lead investigators, evidently with assistance from Irene Adler Norton.  Unfortunately, while an American publisher had in fact picked up at least that first book, it proved difficult to find copies online, and I'm not clear as to whether the second ever made it across the pond.

I was therefore startled to find yesterday that Powell's Books here in Portland (and shipper to points near and far) has evidently scored a small lot of copies of House (the Web listing says "used", but the sticker on the trade paperback I scooped up (evidently the British edition!) has a code for "remaindered").  If anyone else has been looking for this book, now would most likely be the time to jump.

Comments

[mightymads]

Thank you for the rec! They probably don't deliver to Russia :) Anyway, I read a synopsis on Google books. On the one hand, it's intriguing that there's Mrs.Hudson's and Mary's POV, but on the other, that Holmes turned down a lady in dire circumstances, somewhat incredible.

[smallhobbit]

It's available from bookdepository.com who deliver worldwide and you can get second-hand copies in the States from abebooks.com or cheaply in the UK from abebooks.co.uk .

[language_escapes]

I REALLY enjoy these books. They're a bit unusual - they don't really follow the traditional pastiche structure at all - but I love them.

[language_escapes]

He's actually doing a thing he does in the canon - the woman isn't telling him the full truth, so he sends her away, expecting her to come back. Except that she doesn't, and he frets. So it isn't an out-of-character thing, it just doesn't have the usual outcome.

[mightymads]

Oh, thanks for clarifying! But he makes no attempt to find her when she doesn't return?