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The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor (Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street Book 1) by Barry Brown (Paperback)

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The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor (Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street Book 1) by Barry Brown

It is the Victorian Era. One woman rules the British Empire; virtually all other women rule domains no larger than their kitchens. The widow of Constable Tobias Hudson is determined not to be one of those other women. She uses the lodgings she has leased at 221B Street to recruit the male figurehead she needs for the consulting detective agency that will make use of her investigative skills and observational abilities. It is a definite plus that the most attractive applicant for that role, Sherlock Holmes, brings with him the level-headed Dr. John Watson. This, then, is the first in the Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street series designed to expose and celebrate the genius and achievements of the true sage of Baker Street.

The services of the consulting detective agency are requested by Lady Parkerton, whose husband, Sir Stanley, appears to have been poisoned after a family dinner in which he had the same food and drink as all other guests. When the family’s coachman, who drinks too much and knows too much, is murdered as well, the game is truly afoot. Mrs. Hudson and her colleagues must not only sort through the motives and movements of the Parkerton family and staff, they must contend, as well, with the threat posed by the unexpected return to England of the White Rajah of Sarawak and the sudden intrusion of headhunters into the English countryside.

 

Review Quotes:

More than one writer has made Mrs. Hudson the central character in a novel, but Barry S. Brown in The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor is, I think, the first to suggest that she was the true detective genius at 221B Baker Street. She’s a likable character…and disconcertingly credible. … Holmes and Watson play their parts intelligently, learning on the job, so to speak…. Their enquiry into the unexpected demise of Sir Stanley Parkerton is interrupted by another sudden death and by the flight of Sir Stanley’s son and daughter-in-law. It’s a gloriously complex and improbable scenario made even more so by a relationship with one of the most unlikely royal dynasties of the time, the White Rajahs of Sarawak. —The District Messenger, The Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, July, 2010

”An exciting mystery of Victorian England, The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor is a read that shouldn’t be missed.” —Midwest Book Review

The Unpleasantness at Parkerton Manor reads like a Sherlock Holmes story that any fan would appreciate. … I look forward to more cases guided by Mrs. Hudson’s able hands. —Over My Dead Body! Mystery Magazine, November 19, 2010

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