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It’s the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world’s most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood. It’s Christmastime in London, and Sherlock Holmes takes on two cases. The angelic three-year-old child of a wealthy couple is the target of a vicious kidnapper, and a country aristocrat worries that his handsome, favourite son has mysteriously vanished from his London pied à terre. Holmes and Watson, aided by the colourful Heffie O’Malley, slip slide in the ice to ensure a merry Christmas is had by nearly everybody . . .

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MacBird's artistry will keep readers eagerly turning the pages. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post Perfectly captures the essence of Conan Doyle's fiction.' -Independent MacBird's series grows stronger with each book and she remains the best and most faithful pastiche writer out there today - bar none. -The Doylockian Victorian London comes alive in this enthralling Christmas mystery, written with intelligence, style, and lovely period detail. -Mimi Matthews, USA Today bestselling author What Child Is This? is the most charming, entertaining Holmesian yarn I've read in years. True to the curmudgeonly character, this schmaltz-free Christmas novel also gives a fascinating look at the attitudes toward love and family in late Victorian England - while deftly weaving a suitably Sherlockian double mystery. A must read for Holmesians - and others! - Matt Witten, bestselling author of The Necklace

MacBird's artistry will keep readers eagerly turning the pages. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post Perfectly captures the essence of Conan Doyle's fiction.' -Independent MacBird's series grows stronger with each book and she remains the best and most faithful pastiche writer out there today - bar none. -The Doylockian

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Bonnie MacBird is a produced screenwriter (TRON) and playwright (many plays and musicals) as well as an accomplished stage actor and writing teacher (UCLA Extension). She holds degrees from Stanford in music and film, and when she’s not writing Sherlock Holmes, moonlights as a theatre director and audiobook reader. A long career in Hollywood include stints as a feature film development executive, and multiple Emmy winning producer. Bonnie is a member of the London Sherlock Holmes Society and was recently invested as a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes. She divides her time between Los Angeles and London where she is hard at work on a sequel to ART IN THE BLOOD and UNQUIET SPIRITS titled DEVIL’S DUE. Visit her at www.macbird.com.

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