Minor spoiler: Sherlock Holmes is in this book so I had really big doubts that this would be any good. I was VERY pleasantly surprised. Not only was Sherlock handled reasonably well and respectably but I REALLY liked the main character: a female cross-dressing doctor/detective. I didn't see that ...
I wanted to like this book more than I ultimately did. I was excited about the premise of the book, a female in Victorian England posing as a male in order to work as a Physician. The author had some clever explanations for the transition. Add Sherlock Holmes to that and what a great mix you h...
Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wird im Wasserwerk von London eine Leiche gefunden, die Anzeichen für Cholera hat. Dr. Anton Kronberg, einer der führenden Bakteriologen wird von Scotland Yard hinzugezogen. Am Tatort trifft Anton auf Sherlock Holmes, der sein/ihr Geheimnis dank seiner genialen Kombinati...