This re imagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories is interesting and continues to be enjoyable. This time Pendragon must penetrate deep into the queen's guards. He does so and solves his case.

Historical mysteries are really hit or miss for me. When I love them they're my absolute favorite but when they don't work I tend to find them dry and tedious. That unfortunately was the case with this mystery. This takes place towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign which is a time period I haven't found very often in the mystery genre. As well I was curious to see how Colin and Ethan's sexuality would affect their day to day life as it wasn't particularly socially acceptable at the time. And I never can resist a nice bloody murder!

Unfortunately, it all fell about flat for me. I didn't hate it - I just didn't care, which might be worse. Ethan and Colin both seemed to speak in almost a presentation style. I expect there was lots of throat clearing before they would make their paragraph length pronouncements. I really couldn't tell the difference between the two men which made it hard to keep track of who was who. Basically Colin seemed a little more arrogant and Ethan spent more time worrying about Colin and occasionally making foreshadowing statements.

For me this was one of those books that was completely out of mind as soon as I put the book down and it always took a minute to remember just what was happening and who everyone was when I picked up again. So finally at about 65% when I realized I just didn't care who did what and why I called it quits.