![]() ![]() I just couldn't see this ploy working on any of his sophisticated political enemies. And he leaves out the front door to get in his cab, etc. The people Mycroft suspects of collusion are often the very ones he is meeting in secret meetings, and obviously they all know that he's out and about. ![]() Throughout this story, there are watchers around the house who must be thrown off the scent. In order to accomplish this, he has a body-double impersonate his routine at home during the day, and cross over to the Diogenes Club at the appropriate time. Mycroft 's sedentary lifestyle is actually a ruse used to fool his enemies into underestimating him, and also serves to confuse them as to his secret work for the government. On the other hand, I quite frankly disliked the main narrator (Guthrie, Mycroft's secretary) and I had a lot of problems with the plot itself. ![]() On the one hand, the writing style was engaging and the vocabulary and phrasing felt very period-appropriate. I found myself torn while reading this book. ![]()
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