Eye of the Crow
by:
Shane Peacock (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780887768507 (0887768504)
Publish date: August 24th 2007
Publisher: Tundra Books
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Teen,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Canada
Series: The Boy Sherlock Holmes (#1)
I have never given much thought to Sherlock Holmes as a boy or spent any time pondering what Holmes must have been like as a teenager. Reading "Eye of the Crow" though kind of forces the issue.I think the origins of Holmes that Peacock chooses are a much darker and more depressing view than I would ...
Making a key out of dried porridge is one thing, but an upper-class man in the 1860s not 'believing' in having servants is a crock. What, is he daughter his servant? Is that his idea of a liberated woman? Give me a break!