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
βancestorββright down to the ridiculous hat. Tammy isnβt
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.
Tammyβs impression of her eccentric boss does not improve
when their first case involves midnight romps through
strangersβ yards in pursuit of a phantom dogβthat 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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