By Vicki Delany
Ta Da!
On Tuesday Sept 12, Crooked Lane Books will release the
second in my Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series,
Body on Baker Street. As befits a
series set in a bookstore, this one is about a visiting author who comes to an
unfortunate end face down in a pile of books awaiting her signature.
Fear not fellow Typists! I had no one in mind when I wrote
that character.
But, like the other books in the series, I had a lot of fun
writing it. In Gemma Doyle, I created a character with the mind and the personality
of Sherlock Holmes, but in a modern young woman. I then created a bookstore,
and I stocked the store. Everything described (with the obvious exception of
the books by Renalta Van Markoff, mentioned above face down) are real and can
be bought in the real world. You too can have a life-sized cut out of Benedict
Cumberbatch in your living room or Holmes-themed thimbles for your sewing
machine or a set of dishes for your next tea party.
When Renalta Van
Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series is
murdered at a book signing in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, the
game is afoot and it’s up to the unusually perceptive Gemma Doyle and her
confused but ever-loyal friend Jayne Wilson to eliminate the impossible and
deduce the truth before the police arrest an innocent man.
The first chapter of Body on Baker Street, as well as Elementary
She Read, is available on my web page at www.vickidelany.com
This time I thought it would be fun to have a friend come
with me on the small book tour this time, so I asked Barbara Fradkin to join
me. We’ll be at Aunt Agatha’s in Ann
Arbor on Sept 21 at 7:00, Different Drummer in Burlington Ontario on Sept 22 at
7:00 and Sleuth of Baker Street in Toronto on Sept 23 at 1:00. Hope to see some
of you there. We'll also be taking part, along with Rich Blechta, in a discussion about adult literacy at Word on the Street in Toronto on Sunday, Sept 24.
