Month: July 2020

  • Book review: The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie King

    The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is the 14th in the series of Mary Russell (wife of Sherlock Holmes). This installment is particularly enchanting as it deals with Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes’s famous landlady. It turns out that Mrs. Hudson has a backstory and…

  • Book review: Ty Cobb by Charles Leerhsen

    Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ty Cobb has a horrible reputation as a racist, mean, and disreputable human being. The author’s premise in this biography is that much of the mythology surrounding Ty Cobb is erroneous, based on a biography by an author who took a…