A review by gabmc
The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson

3.0

This is a really fun cozy mystery that called to me off the library shelves. Reggie Heath is a London barrister who has just taken out a lease on a chambers in Baker Street in London. He has got a really good deal on the lease and is not quite sure why - until he discovers that his office is responsible for responding to the hundreds of letters each year which arrive addressed to Sherlock Holmes. Reggie's younger brother Nigel is also a lawyer who is waiting for a hearing from the Law Society to see if he can still practice. In the meantime, he is working with Reggie and one of his administrative tasks is to answer the letters to Sherlock Holmes. There is a standard form to do this and Reggie figures that Nigel can't get into too much trouble. That is until he discovers the dead body of another employee in Nigel's office and Nigel himself seems to have followed up one of the letters by going to Los Angeles. Dead bodies appear wherever Nigel has been and soon Reggie is in a chase to catch up to Nigel and what's really going on with all the gas explosions that are happening in the subway construction. Very fun book with great characters.