The duo’s sixth case isn’t in the same league as Sherlock Holmes, but it does present a tidier mystery than Harris’ past...
A Victorian detective duo helps Scotland Yard solve a shocking series of murders.
Colin Pendragon and Ethan Pruitt haven’t always had the best relationship with Scotland Yard (The Endicott Evil, 2017, etc.), but they find consulting with Inspector Maurice Evans much easier when they assist him with what appears to be a Jack the Ripper copycat. That’s fortunate, because Colin’s father, Sir Atherton Pendragon, has also asked the duo to help his friend Braxton Everclear find his troubled grandson, whom he hasn't heard from in two weeks. Ethan, Sir Atherton, and Colin’s housekeeper all fear for Colin's health, because he’s still recovering from severe wounds he received in a case that ended with his attacker’s fleeing to Switzerland. As the Ripper copycat continues to spread fear, Colin grows furious with the haughty coroner and his assistant, who have leaked information to the press. The street urchin Paul and his gang help out with both cases and continue to help Ethan when Colin collapses and is hospitalized with a life-threatening infection. Although Ethan is determined to keep the nature of his relationship with Colin in the closet, he’s sure Colin would want him to carry on their work. A former opium addict himself, Ethan finds the young Everclear in the toils of the drug and doing a well-paying but dangerous job for a mystery man who comes to his apartment and murders him while Ethan is hiding under the bed. The only thing he has to go on is a view of the killer’s unusual and expensive boots. The news that Queen Victoria is worried that the serial killer may be a member of her family makes Colin even more eager to return to the hunt.
The duo’s sixth case isn’t in the same league as Sherlock Holmes, but it does present a tidier mystery than Harris’ past efforts.Pub Date: May 29, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-61773-891-3
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Kensington
Review Posted Online: March 4, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2018
BOOK REVIEW
This ran in the S.E.P. and resulted in more demands for the story in book form than ever recorded. Well, here it is and it is a honey. Imagine ten people, not knowing each other, not knowing why they were invited on a certain island house-party, not knowing their hosts. Then imagine them dead, one by one, until none remained alive, nor any clue to the murderer. Grand suspense, a unique trick, expertly handled.
Pub Date: Feb. 21, 1939
ISBN: 0062073478
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1939
SEEN & HEARD
One protest from an outraged innocent says it all: “This is America. This is Wyoming.”
Once again, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett gets mixed up in a killing whose principal suspect is his old friend Nate Romanowski, whose attempts to live off the grid keep breaking down in a series of felony charges.
If Judge Hewitt hadn’t bent over to pick up a spoon that had fallen from his dinner table, the sniper set up nearly a mile from his house in the gated community of the Eagle Mountain Club would have ended his life. As it was, the victim was Sue Hewitt, leaving the judge alive and free to rail and threaten anyone he suspected of the shooting. Incoming Twelve Sleep County Sheriff Brendan Kapelow’s interest in using the case to promote his political ambitions and the judge’s inability to see further than his nose make them the perfect targets for a frame-up of Nate, who just wants to be left alone in the middle of nowhere to train his falcons and help his bride, Liv Brannon, raise their baby, Kestrel. Nor are the sniper, the sheriff, and the judge Nate’s only enemies. Orlando Panfile has been sent to Wyoming by the Sinaloan drug cartel to avenge the deaths of the four assassins whose careers Nate and Joe ended last time out (Wolf Pack, 2019). So it’s up to Joe, with some timely data from his librarian wife, Marybeth, to hire a lawyer for Nate, make sure he doesn’t bust out of jail before his trial, identify the real sniper, who continues to take an active role in the proceedings, and somehow protect him from a killer who regards Nate’s arrest as an unwelcome complication. That’s quite a tall order for someone who can’t shoot straight, who keeps wrecking his state-issued vehicles, and whose appalling mother-in-law, Missy Vankeuren Hand, has returned from her latest European jaunt to suck up all the oxygen in Twelve Sleep County to hustle some illegal drugs for her cancer-stricken sixth husband. But fans of this outstanding series will know better than to place their money against Joe.
One protest from an outraged innocent says it all: “This is America. This is Wyoming.”Pub Date: March 3, 2020
ISBN: 978-0-525-53823-3
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Putnam
Review Posted Online: Jan. 12, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2020
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