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Rosemary
Oct 18, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A fun story set during the First World War but nowhere near the battlefields. Trelawney Hart, once the owner of a very sharp mind but with no social skills, has fallen into heavy drinking after the death of his wife. He's dragged out of the London club where he leads his drunken existence by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wants him to investigate a man who claims to be a medium. Off he goes to the seaside town of Broadstairs, where he makes an unlikely friend, drinks a great deal, and does a little ...more