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Not quite enough of a mystery or a protagonist for me
After I read the 12th Russell/Holmes book, The Pirate King, I thought I was done with the series I'd previously enjoyed so much. In that book, Holmes was offstage almost the entire time and Mary was at her self-satisfied and complaining worst. And that boat trip was the dullest ever. But Dreaming Spies, with its title that plays on the "dreaming spires" that Matthew Arnold attributed to Oxford drew me in. I've always enjoyed Oxford-based mysteries.

Sure enough, Oxford book-ends the story, but the action mainly takes place in flashback, on another boat trip (oh, no!) and in the Far East. This is another slow boat, but not to China; instead, to Japan. Aboard ship, Russell and Holmes meet a young woman named Haruki Sato who may not be what she seems. Holmes also spots an aristocrat he suspects of being a blackmailer. And then a passenger goes missing . . .

In this series, Laurie R. King has taken to emphasize, more and more, the culture and politics of...

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