The Village of Revenge: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Craig Stephen Copland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1891. It all started for Sherlock Holmes with an invitation by Inspector Lestrade to view a female body, which had been shot, and found inside a burnt cottage. It is supposed to be the body of Mrs Munro, and her children and husband have disappeared. But then the case becomes complicated

Contains 3 short stories
1. The adventure of the humble Mr Hier - 1882 Australians Mr and Mrs Wilkins Micawber arrive in London to find the fraudsters who stole their money.
2. The adventure of blood and fire -1887 Lt Prisalla Livingston of the salvation army has been murdered. But by whom and why
3. The adventure of the suicidal sister - 1919 Lady Lillian Assherton, failed in her second attempt at suicide, committed because she has wrongly been accused of treason during the war.
Entertainig mysteries.

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