The Counterfeit Detective by Simpson Grears
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Pages: 332 pages
Publisher: Rymour books
BACK OF THE BOOK
An American professor discovers the diaries of John Ledbury, known as the counterfeit detective, a minor poet who, in Victorian London, is employed to reply to the mail that comes addressed to Sherlock Holmes at 221b Baker Street.
Through the diaries, he unearths a series of baffling unsolved murders. He travels through England and Scotland but he realizes that, in order to solve the mystery, he has to travel further, back through time itself.
MY REVIEW
The Counterfeit Detective tells the story of an American professor who finds notes from John Ledbury detailing his involvement in a case with Scotland Yard investigating the murders of women.
The story goes between the 2 timelines which to begin with felt unnecessary however it becomes very clear why we are seeing both of these gentlemen’s stories and I definitely didn’t see the ending coming.
Although the story mentions Arthur Conan Doyle and the Sherlock Holmes character it is not a large aspect of the story allowing this crime novel to stand out on its own.
I struggled a little with some of the language but this is not a fault of the author who has written it perfectly for the language used for the time the story is set. This will definitely be a fan for crime novel lovers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SIMPSON GREARS was born in Glasgow and studied at the universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Edinburgh before following an academic career in Scotland, England, Wales and the United States. His first work of crime fiction – a collection of short stories titled The Foot of the Walk Murders – was longlisted for the prestigious Dagger award of the Crime Writers Association. He lives in Perth, central Scotland.
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