A Sherlock Holmes story by Caleb Carr. Holmes and Watson go to Scotland at the request of Mycroft, who is working for Queen Victoria. Interesting descriptions of Edinburgh, Balmoral Castle, and Holyrood Palace, but that's about all.
Since Stephanie's post about slogging through or bagging, I've bagged two stinkers, Relic and Seven Deadly Wonders.
I wanted to give Lincoln Child another try and he's co-written a lot with Douglas Preston, including Relic. The writing's fine but the story appears to be about a man-lizard creature hiding out in the catacombs of the Museum of Natural History. Meh.
SDW is filled with lots of maps and diagrams (which probably sucked me in) but it is a preposterous story that appears to have some modern-day adventure associated with each of the Great Wonders. I got 50 pages into the first adventure about the search for the head of the Colossus of Rhodes, which was hidden by someone inside a jungle mountain somewhere. Lots of deadly secret traps are avoided or thwarted by our team (which includes an eight-year old girl), while racing against a competing faction of Euros led by a monk. And there's a team of Americans not far behind! Bah. It looks like the editor couldn't finish it either because the really important stuff is italicized so you don't miss it. "And then he stomped on the key stone, releasing an avalanche of flaming clkjdnflk;sj;vb...."
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Huh. Didn't know others had written SH stories.
Penelope Ann Miller starred in the movie version of Relic. Stinker.
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