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The Baker Street Translation: The Baker Street Letters Series, Book 3
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In Michael Robertson's The Baker Street Translation, Reggie and Nigel Heath—brothers who lease law offices at 221B Baker Street in London, England and answer mail addressed to the location's most famous resident, Sherlock Holmes—find themselves pulled once again into a case straight out of Arthur Conan Doyle.
An elderly American heiress wants to leave her entire fortune to Sherlock Holmes. A translator wants Sherlock Holmes to explain a nursery rhyme. And Robert Buxton—Reggie's rival for the love of actress Laura Rankin—has gone missing. Reggie must suss all these things out before an upcoming British royal event. If he doesn't, something very bad will happen to everyone at that event—and to Laura.
Fast-paced, exciting, and clever, this is the perfect mystery for aficionados of the current craze for all things Sherlockian.

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An elderly American heiress wants to leave her entire fortune to Sherlock Holmes. A translator wants Sherlock Holmes to explain a nursery rhyme. And Robert Buxton—Reggie's rival for the love of actress Laura Rankin—has gone missing. Reggie must suss all these things out before an upcoming British royal event. If he doesn't, something very bad will happen to everyone at that event—and to Laura.
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      • content: "Readers who know not to take the proceedings seriously will find the deadpan tone perfectly suited to the whimsically improbable developments."
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        February 4, 2013
        Dexterous plotting lifts Robertson’s third contemporary mystery centered on barrister Reggie Heath and his unusual mandate (after 2011’s The Brothers of Baker Street). Under the terms of his office lease at 221B Baker Street, Reggie must ensure that someone responds to the many letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes, a task he’s delegated to his brother Nigel in California. Once again, those missives trigger murder and mayhem, starting with kidnappers demanding delivery of a recent packet of letters to guarantee their captive’s safe return. Meanwhile, an elderly Chinese man, Mr. Liu, seeks Holmes’s help after he’s denied payment for supposedly substandard work translating instructions for children’s toys. After a comic exchange in which Mr. Liu has trouble understanding that Holmes is a fictional character, Reggie shows him the door. The next day, Mr. Liu’s bloody body is found in a London alley. The author’s creative use of the series concept augurs well for a long run. Agent: Kirby Kim, William Morris Endeavor.

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        Baker Street barrister Reggie Heath (The Brothers of Baker Street, 2011, etc.) is faced with three puzzles fully as strange as his enforced avocation of answering letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The most straightforward case involves the kidnapping of Lord Robert Buxton, Reggie's wealthy, pompous, wholly ineffectual rival for the affections of American actress Laura Rankin, which would on the whole be a welcome development if the 1 million ransom ("Is that all?" exclaims Laura) didn't include as a supplement all the recent correspondence addressed to Holmes. The second, far more recondite, concerns Mr. Liu, a translator who appeals to Holmes, and to Reggie as his agent, to persuade Elizabeth Winslow, of Standard Translation Services, that his Chinese translations of several nursery rhymes are indeed correct. The third is an awkward bequest by Hilary Clemens, a deceased centenarian in Texas, who has left her entire fortune to Sherlock Holmes and whose grandnephew Darby fails to see the humor of the situation. There'll be much crosscutting among the adventures of Laura, Reggie and Reggie's brother Nigel, who's sweating the results of the California bar exam, as they struggle to trace possible connections among these three problems, or at least extricate themselves from the dangers they pose individually, before a climactic sequence that may mark the first time in history or fiction in which political terrorists seek to promote their nefarious ends by using talking toy ducks. Readers who, unlike Mr. Darby, know not to take the proceedings seriously will find the deadpan tone perfectly suited to the whimsically improbable developments. As a bonus, all the policemen the heroes consult are so imperviously dense that they might have stepped out of your own comic nightmares.

        COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        March 1, 2013

        Robertson's (The Baker Street Letters; The Baker Street Brothers) Reggie and Nigel Heath are back on the case! Reggie still has a law office on the second floor of 221 Baker Street and receives more letters to Sherlock Holmes than he does legal clients, but Nigel--brother, partner, and Holmes mail handler extraordinaire--has relocated to Los Angeles. When Robert Buxton, Reggie's longtime romantic rival for Laura Rankin, goes missing and two of the Holmes letters appear to supply motive, the brothers and Laura reunite for one more detective adventure. VERDICT The characters here are charming and the tone is humorous but the plot is so neat it lacks tension. Series newcomers might feel alienated by the frequent allusions to events in previous installments, but regular fans are sure to be pleased. Recommended for Robertson devotees and cozy mystery enthusiasts. [See Prepub Alert, 11/4/12.]--Liv Hanson, Chicago

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        March 1, 2013
        This series has quite a premise: two barrister brothers rent office chambers at Dorset House, which makes up an entire block of Baker Street. The offices have location, locationand one catch. The occupants are required to answer the letters that come in from all over the globe addressed to Baker Street's most famous resident, Sherlock Holmes. This codicil has already caused brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath no end of bother and thrown them in the middle of some intriguing mysteries. This time a persistent letter writer appears in person to question Reggie about nursery rhymes, rhymes that the reader knows from the first chapter (a total jaw-dropper) have to do with the location of explosives. Nigel is in L.A., and Reggie has to cope with a body in an alley who bears Reggie's business card and with the disappearance of a powerful publishing magnate, who happens to be the dead's man's rival for the affections of an actress who bears a striking resemblance to Holmes' amour, Irene Adler. Lots of Holmes references, both to the canon and to contemporary Holmes worship, plus lots of action and sparkling commentary equals great fun.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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An elderly American heiress wants to leave her entire fortune to Sherlock Holmes. A translator wants Sherlock Holmes to explain a nursery rhyme. And Robert Buxton—Reggie's rival for the love of actress Laura Rankin—has gone missing. Reggie must suss all these things out before an upcoming British royal event. If he doesn't, something very bad will happen to everyone at that event—and to Laura.
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