Book Excerpt for the Day

    "Well," I said as we walked back toward the depot, "what did you think of Mr. Best?"

    "He is an interesting character," Holmes replied, "and very much in the American grain, which is to say he is blunt, intelligent in an uneducated sort of way and quite obviously fearless.  His chief defect, I suspect, is that he is overly excitable by nature."

    "Did anything else strike you?"

    "Only that Mr. Best has several scars upon his right hand which indicate he was once badly burned."


(from Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon, by Larry Millett)


7½*/10.  The full review is here.