After You, Holmes...

Rating:
Summary: Short stories that failed to engage me
Review: A collection of four short stories of varying lengths which seem to reflect the author's desire for Holmes and Watson to investigate cases in the north of England, presumably not too far from the author's current and/or childhood home.

While readable, I found these stories not particularly enjoyable and I was easily distracted from them. I was annoyed by the names that are employed to conceal the "identities" of the people involved - the Rt. Hon. Treasure Fortune M.P. indeed! Krihc House near the village of Chirk. And why the strangely named Inspector Indigo Strap insists on calling Captain Rufus Carrick "Capting" is not plain to me.

Underlying this are four stories which, while not bad, are sub-Conan Doyle in their content. Not a book I could recommend.