I long to meet a boy in a bookshop! Alas, there is never anybody lingering over the gap between Henry James and Sarah Jewett but me.*
*If you get that, you may actually be my soulmate. No, seriously. 
Filed under Books, General madness
Mary Clockwork by Anne Rumery
Price: $3.99 USD. 72810 words. Published on February 15, 2013. Fiction.
Mary Balfour is a precocious 13-year-old in Victorian London. In the mysterious absence of her parents, she's pretty much on her own. She wants Sherlock Holmes to train her as a consulting detective, but he turns her down, so she decides to get back at him. With the help of her servants and a group of less-than-respectable friends, she plans a crime that even he cannot solve.
