• Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady

  • By: Marlene R. Aig
  • Narrated by: Tyler Eliason
  • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady

By: Marlene R. Aig
Narrated by: Tyler Eliason
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Publisher's summary

The Lufton Lady reveals an episode from the early career of Sherlock Holmes an incident that proves the great detective had a heart as well as a brain. The story is told mostly in excerpts from the journal of an aristocrat who finds himself caught up in a dramatic encounter in 1878.

The Lufton Lady is a novella by Marlene R. Aig, a noted Sherlockian and member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes who was also a respected Associated Press reporter. It has been largely unknown since her death in 1996, and is now published for the first time.

©2013 Christopher Redmond (P)2021 MX Publishing

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So many mispronounced words Difficult to listen to. Weak story. Thankfully short story not up to other Holmes efforts.

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Really, really good

This is not the kind of story I usually enjoy and yet.... here I am, loving it *laughs*

A story set before the Canon, with a younger, less analytic Holmes who is more open to softer emotions than the one we are used to seeing. This is a Holmes' case, yes, but it is also a love story between three different couples, all of them forbidden by the social norms of the times, all of them with a less than fulfilling resolution if you are after a happy ever after. But the characters! they all feel so very real, their conflicts utterly human. We get to see Holmes while he is still perfecting his skills and young enough to doubt them. There is blackmail, murder, heartbreak and deadly retribution.

It seems impossible that the author has managed such a full-fledged story in such a short novelette, and yet, she did it. A wonderfully written, very satisfying story.

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Odd, but great!

Interesting story and odd reading style, but kind of quirky and fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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