A review by nwhyte
Secret Histories by Jonathan Dennis, Jim Smith, Paul Farnsworth, Cody Schell, Eddie Robson, Richard Freeman, Nick Wallace, Lance Parkin, Mark Clapham, Mark Michalowski
3.0
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This is a collection of nine Bernice Summerfield stories, with a linking narrative by Mark Clapham which rather loosely connects them. Just to flag up the two stories that stood out for me one way or the other: "The Illuminated Man" by Mark Michalowski takes Benny's son Peter into a dangerous environment - captive of a freak show, where he has to unravel a mystery for himself. It showed an underplayed character in a new light. On the other hand, Eddie Robson’s "The Firing Squad", which is linked to "The Illuminated Man" and the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "A Game of Pigeons" by an insufficiently explained plot device, has Peter's father Adrian in a rather ridiculous odyssey across wartime France, walking from one nick-of-time adventure to another.
This is a collection of nine Bernice Summerfield stories, with a linking narrative by Mark Clapham which rather loosely connects them. Just to flag up the two stories that stood out for me one way or the other: "The Illuminated Man" by Mark Michalowski takes Benny's son Peter into a dangerous environment - captive of a freak show, where he has to unravel a mystery for himself. It showed an underplayed character in a new light. On the other hand, Eddie Robson’s "The Firing Squad", which is linked to "The Illuminated Man" and the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "A Game of Pigeons" by an insufficiently explained plot device, has Peter's father Adrian in a rather ridiculous odyssey across wartime France, walking from one nick-of-time adventure to another.