As a Sherlock Holmes fan growing up, I have to admit that
THE CASE OF THE
INVISIBLE DOG written by Diane Stingley is one novel that
I could not pass up.
Stingley has taken the use of the legendary Holmes for a
whole new storyline
involving in great, great, granddaughter who will continue
his impeccable work
of solving crimes. However her biggest obstacle is that,
her great, great,
grandfather, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.
THE CASE OF THE INVISIBLE DOG is the first in
the Shirley Homes Mystery series, we can bet that
Diane Stingley will have more
to come of our newest Private Detective. This will be a
series packed with humor,
crazy, colorful characters, and insane mysteries that seem
almost impossible for
Homes to solve.
Shirley Homes has Tammy Norman where her great, great,
grandfather; Sherlock
Holmes had Dr. Watson as his partner in investigating some
notorious crimes.
Tammy moves back to North Carolina to put her life back
together, but she
needs a job. After answering a strange ad in the paper
that seems too good to be
true, Tammy accepts a job with Shirley Homes. At first she
is unsure what she
does as the ad never said. It does not take long for Tammy
to find out that either
her new boss is coo coo, or she really is the off spring
of the famous but fictional
character Sherlock Holmes. Whichever it may be, Tammy
finds that her life is not
boring and she just has to keep her and her boss out of
deep trouble with the
local Police Department as their case of an invisible dog
seems to make them
both look a little crazy.
With each chapter I found myself snickering at different
parts. The character,
Shirley Homes will come across as being a little unstable
at times but you can't
help but fall in love with her and her ability to take any
situation without stress
and keep a cool head about herself. You'll laugh at how
she will take Tammy's
thoughts and make them sound as if she had thought of them
first. THE CASE OF
THE INVISIBLE DOG by Diane Stingley is a hilarious mystery
that you must read
this summer! I can't wait for the next one in this series!
In the start of a charmingly imaginative cozy series sure
to
delight fans of Carolyn Hart and Diane Mott Davidson,
Diane
Stingley introduces a blundering detective who believes
herself to be the great-great-granddaughter of the
legendary
Sherlock Holmes.
After failing to launch her career as a Hollywood actress,
Tammy Norman returns home to North Carolina, desperate for
a
regular paycheck and a new lease on life. So she accepts a
position assisting Shirley Homes, an exceptionally odd
personage who styles herself after her celebrated
“ancestor”–right down to the ridiculous hat. Tammy isn’t
sure how long she can go on indulging the delusional
Shirley
(who honestly believes Sherlock Holmes was a real
person!),
but with the prospect of unemployment looming, she decides
to give it a shot.
Tammy’s impression of her eccentric boss does not improve
when their first case involves midnight romps through
strangers’ yards in pursuit of a phantom dog—that only
their
client can hear. But when the case takes a sudden and
sinister turn, Tammy has to admit that Shirley Homes might
actually be on to something. . . .
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