Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to
the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her
Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and
Emporium.
The shop--located at 222 Baker Street--specializes in the
Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also the home of
Moriarty
the cat. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable
magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden
in
the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne (who runs the
adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room) set off to find the
owner,
only to stumble upon a dead body.
The highly perceptive Gemma is the police’s first
suspect,
so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to
clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books
expert,
the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole
family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their
inheritance. But when Gemma and Jayne accidentally place
themselves at a second murder scene, it's a race to
uncover
the truth before the detectives lock them up for good.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight in the sleuthing duo
of
Gemma and Jayne in Elementary, She Read, the
clever
and captivating series debut by nationally bestselling
author Vicki Delany.
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