In a collection of essyas, the Baker Street Irregulars mount an expedition to Salt Lake City to carefully consider the history of the Old West, the Mormon,s and the events of the mid-nineteenth century, the setting for the centerpiece of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's, A study in Scarlet. Despite widespread intercourse between America and England in late Victorian times, misconceptions and myth about America persisted in English minds and made their way into the Sherlockian canon. In particular, A study in scarlet depicts evil Mormons forcing Lucy Ferrier into polygamy.
This is Anthony at his most ingenious, with another gripping fantasy of the struggle of the incarnations against the machinations of Satan.
Holmes receives a potentially lethal package, the first strand in the tangled skein, which he will need to unravel before this new adventure is resolved.
The tangled skein arises from Mary's love for the Robert d'Esclade, fifth Duke of Wessex, said to be the people's choice as King Consort.
Now it is up to Solveig to restore her brother's good name and her family's honor, picking apart the truth about the past from the falsehoods and rumors like a tangled skein of yarn.
Reproduction of the original: The Tangled Skein by Baroness Orczy
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The Tangled Skein
In The Tangled Skein, Baroness Orczy does not paint Queen Mary nearly so black as she is usually portrayed.
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