Jerome K. Kerome’s Three Men in a Boat meets Sherlock Holmes
London, the early 1890s. Jerome and his fox-terrier Montmorency have recently moved to a new set of rooms in Mrs Hudson’s establishment in Baker Street. The tenant of the floor below has some anti-social habits, such as working with odoriferous chemicals and, when bored, firing a revolver into his ceiling. But at least the rent is low.
Jerome and his friends are planning their latest jaunt – and indulging their favourite pastime of bemoaning the inconveniences of modern nineteenth-century living—when Miss Briony Lodge calls at Baker Street to ask their help. Who is sending her orange pips? Whoever it is, they are getting closer by the day. When two, more sinister, strangers call, it becomes clear that the beautiful young schoolmistress is in deadly danger. But what match are a bank clerk, a lawyer’s assistant, a dog and a novelist for a international gang of desperadoes? None whatsoever. Until Mrs Hudson takes charge…
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Born in Walsall of Indian and Welsh stock, and educated there and at Oxford, David Bagchi is an academic. Starting out as a historical theologian he became, in what he describes as a shock career move, a theological historian. In 2010 he started pressing the wrong keys on his laptop, and two years later his first novel, a Tudor conspiracy thriller, won the TBS Novel Prize. The Mystery of Briony Lodge is his second work of fiction.
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