2008 # 150

Laurie R. King - The Art of Detection - Finished - 12/3/2008

A new Author for me. Pretty good story too.. Detective

Kate Martinelli is called to a crime scene in Marin county at a old shore gun emplacement of Park Property. The body is that of Philip Gilbert, a Sherlock Holmes fanatic. In the process of the investigation an old manuscript is discovered in Philip's safe. When Kate reads it she finds it is a supposedly lost take by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written while visiting San Francisco. imbedded in the current narrative is the older manuscript, so there is a mystery within a mystery with several overlapping areas between old and new..

Follow Kate and fellow detective as the unravel the mystery of who killed Philip.

ISBN - 978-0-553-58833-0, Suspense, Pages - 495, Print Size - R, Rating - 4.5