Arrowood
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Publisher Description
1895: La ciudad de Londres está asustada. Un asesino está al acecho en las calles, los pobres están hambrientos, los cabecillas de las bandas criminales están haciéndose con el control, las fuerzas policiales no dan abasto.
Los ricos acuden a Sherlock Holmes, pero el aclamado detective privado no pisa casi nunca las densamente pobladas calles del sur de Londres, las calles donde los crímenes son más sórdidos y la gente más pobre.
En una oscura esquina de Southwark, las víctimas acuden a un hombre que detesta a Holmes, a los adinerados clientes de este y el teatral enfoque forense con el que investiga los crímenes. Ese hombre es Arrowood: psicólogo autodidacta, borracho ocasional e investigador privado.
Cuando un hombre desaparece misteriosamente y la persona que podría aportarle información al respecto es brutalmente apuñalada ante sus propios ojos, Arrowood se enfrenta junto a Barnett, su fiel ayudante, a la misión más difícil que han tenido hasta el momento: capturar al cabecilla de la banda criminal más peligrosa de Londres...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Finlay does a good job of creating a plausible alternative to Sherlock Holmes in his first novel and series debut. In London in 1895, photographer Caroline Cousture, a French woman, turns to Arrowood because she can't afford Holmes's fees. Her brother, Thierry, has vanished after being accused of stealing from the bakery where he worked. Though Arrowood suspects her of lying, he accepts the case, only to find that it reawakens some painful and dangerous memories. Arrowood was once a successful reporter before he lost his job to a relative of the new owner of his paper. His reputation for muckraking led to a career as a detective and an eventual partnership with former law clerk Norman Barnett. Their first joint inquiry, into a suspected bigamy, ended disastrously, with an innocent man losing his life. Arrowood took to the bottle, causing his wife to leave him. Finlay's characterizations are better developed than in some similar series, such as Will Thomas's Barker and Llewelyn mysteries (Hell Bay, etc.).
