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This is a silly, little novel. A hybrid of procedural and cozy, this mystery is all narrative velocity and not much else.
Mostly, I don't like shipping Holmes and Adler but this book found the exception: one night of cocaine-fueled debauchery following Godfrey's death.
Joanna is brilliant, beautiful, and articulate. John Watson Jr concludes they're a perfect match with zero reflection on what makes them fit together. Nothing about what his attraction to Joanna means to him.
I'm not fond of genetic determinism as the explanation for human behavior but heroes, villains, and Lestrade are defined by their relatives in the classic stories.
I love the sheer silliness of the whole novel.
This is a silly, little novel. A hybrid of procedural and cozy, this mystery is all narrative velocity and not much else.
Mostly, I don't like shipping Holmes and Adler but this book found the exception: one night of cocaine-fueled debauchery following Godfrey's death.
Joanna is brilliant, beautiful, and articulate. John Watson Jr concludes they're a perfect match with zero reflection on what makes them fit together. Nothing about what his attraction to Joanna means to him.
I'm not fond of genetic determinism as the explanation for human behavior but heroes, villains, and Lestrade are defined by their relatives in the classic stories.
I love the sheer silliness of the whole novel.
