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Reading: The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter is the first Alexis Hall book I bought, though not the first I ended up reading by a long way. It's a kind of steampunk Lovecraftian reimagining of Sherlock Holmes, probably by way of BBC Sherlock, with a gender-flipped sorceress Holmes (Shaharazad Haas) and a buttoned-up Victorian (though gay and trans) Watson (Captain John Wyndham) trying to solve a case of attempted blackmail. I thought this was great fun.