

Arrowood
Author: Mick Finlay
Narrator: Alejandro De Mesa
Unabridged: 11 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 08/21/2018
Author: Mick Finlay
Narrator: Alejandro De Mesa
Unabridged: 11 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 08/21/2018
Mick Finlay was born in Glasgow and grew up in Canada and England. He now divides his time between Brighton and Cambridge. He teaches in a Psychology Department, and has published social psychological research on political violence, persuasion, and verbal and non-verbal behaviour. He reads widely in history, psychology, and enjoys a variety of fiction genres (including crime, of course!) Mick used his background in psychology for writing his first book, a historical crime novel Arrowood, set in Victorian London.
So I have finished my Easter Book. An anti-Sherlock Holmes set in 1895 London at the height of the notorious detective’s fame. The tagline on the book is "London Society takes its problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood." Arrowood and his very capable assistant Norman Barnett inve......more
I just can't resist reading a book that is set in the same time as Sherlock Holmes. And, the book did seem really promising with Arrowood being the poor man's Sherlock Holmes. However, I had some problems with the story. First, with Arrowood himself and his Sherlock envy. I mean his alias is Lockshe......more
Down south, London town In South London in the 1890s, William Arrowood is fat and bald (‘a potato of a man’), physically unfit, exhibits problems with alcohol consumption and has a pathological aversion to Sherlock Holmes. For various reasons Arrowood finds himself a private investigator; like Holmes......more
OK. So... I did not really like this book. I see what Finlay was trying to do here, but it just didn't work. 1) Arrowood is the discount, cheaply-made version of Sherlock Holmes. He is the Dollar General of private investigators. He is gross. Sweaty, fat, balding, farts all the time, messes around w......more
I absolutely love the tagline of this book: London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. That totally caught my eye when I was scanning Netgalley in search of new books to read this summer. An anti-Sherlock Holmes sounded refreshing and new. I have been watc......more