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Elementary, She Read


A Cozy Mystery Novel


Book 1 of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries Series


Subgenres:

  • Bookshop Mystery,
  • Sherlock Holmes-Inspired,
  • Cape Cod
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Sherlock Holmes-themed bookshops packed with canon and pastiche references
  • Cozy mysteries featuring clever heroines and their loyal tea room sidekicks
  • Cape Cod settings with rare books, suspicious families, and a mischievous cat

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A Sherlock Holmes-themed bookstore adds a fun twist to this mystery novel.

Gemma returns to Cape Cod when she inherits her great uncle’s Sherlock Holmes bookshop, along with a cat named Moriarty who becomes her nemesis (of course). A dead body puts a damper on her homecoming when she’s suspected of murder. Together with her friend Jayne, who runs a nearby tea room, Gemma must take a page from the great sleuth himself and use her wits to find the real killer as the bodies pile up. If you’re a Sherlock fan, it’s a must-read!

Publisher Description

A "fast, fun" cozy mystery "full of Sherlockian lore"—set at a Cape Cod bookshop run by a "heroine as observant as the Great Detective himself"! When murder pays a visit to Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, Gemma Doyle must use the powers of deduction to find the killer—and clear her own name.

Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop—located at 222 Baker Street—specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also home to Moriarty the cat. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room) set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.

Gemma is the police's first suspect, so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books expert, the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their inheritance. But when Gemma and Jayne accidentally place themselves at a second murder scene, it's a race to uncover the truth before the detectives lock them up for good.

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