A review by crowyhead
Justice Hall by Laurie R. King

3.0

I was a little dubious about these mysteries, which feature Sherlock Holmes and a younger female protegee named Mary Russel, but I actually ended up enjoying this quite a lot. King ends up truly writing a mystery in the Sherlockian vein, albeit longer than most of Doyle's; there are the same sort of improbable machinations, with people running about in disguise and impersonating nobility and all of that good stuff. King also, wisely perhaps, keeps Russel firmly in the foreground of the mystery, with Holmes as an important but less active character. I mean to find some of the other Mary Russel mysteries, as it seems that I inadvertantly picked up one of the later books in the series, and there were a lot of things that probably would have made more sense if I'd read the earlier books first.