The Baker Street Irregulars in The War of the Worlds Mystery
Type of material: Softcover book
Author: Philip Shreffler
Publisher: Wessex Press, P.O. Box 68308, Indianapolis, IN 46268, USA
Year: 1999
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Price: $15.95
Review: The Baker Street Irregulars in The War of the Worlds Mystery by Philip Shreffler admirably re-creates the early days of the BSI and the New York of the late 1930s. I thoroughly enjoyed the pen portraits of Christopher Morley and his chums and of Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air company.
The disappearance and murder of a promising young actress is convincingly set against the background of Welles' now-classic broadcasts of Sherlock Holmes and The War of the Worlds. If Eliot Simpson, journalist and amateur sleuth, didn't exist as an early Irregular (he didn't - I've just checked), then he jolly well should have.
The War of the Worlds Mystery is a grand detective mystery, with the enticing promise of more to come.
Reviewed by: Roger Johnson, [District Messenger 189, 1999]
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