A Baker Street Wedding
A Baker Street Mystery
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Even the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, would rave about the Baker Street mystery series! A Baker Street Wedding is another winner, and not to be missed.
"Any [Sherlock] Holmes fan would enjoy Michael Robertson's fresh new take on the Holmes stories...fast-paced and thoroughly entertaining." —CNN, Must Read Books on The Baker Street Translation
"Agatha Christie fans will revel in Robertson’s fifth novel...a classic fair play whodunit leavened with humor." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Baker Street Jurors
The wedding of Reggie Heath and the celebrated actress Laura Rankin was reported in all the tabloids—which is to say, it was a disaster.
Now, in a remote village on the British coast, locked in by sea cliffs on one side and moors on the other, the newlywed’s plane—piloted by Laura—has landed. Reggie doesn’t understand why Laura has picked this god-forsaken hamlet for their honeymoon. What is she keeping from him?
The answers are in Laura’s past, but she’s not saying, and Reggie is out of his depth. He must have help—or his worst fears and more will be realized.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Robertson's weak sixth Baker Street mystery (after 2016's The Baker Street Jurors) lacks the humor and original plotting of its predecessors. A prologue set 20 years in the past at a boarding school dance in Bodfyn, Cornwall, focuses on an ungainly teenager, cruelly nicknamed Potty Bobby, who gets a moment of respite from his classmates' taunts when Laura Penobscott invites him to dance. In the present, the celebrated actress known as Laura Rankin, formerly Laura Penobscott, is preparing to marry Reggie Heath, one of the 221B Baker Street lawyers who are legally required to respond to correspondence sent to Sherlock Holmes at that address. When the ceremony is disrupted by paparazzi sent by Lord Buxton, a wealthy man smitten with Laura, the newlyweds flee to Cornwall, ending up in Bodfyn. The death in an apparent hiking accident of an actress slated to appear in a local production of Macbeth provides both a mystery to solve and a chance for Laura to help out by taking over the victim's role. Unsurprising reveals display none of the author's usual ingenuity.
