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1930s: What’s a girl to do when she inherits the famous 221B Baker Street?
Jewel of the Thames ( Portia Adams 1)
What you need to know before your trail
Portia Adams, a budding detective with an interesting — and somewhat mysterious — heritage.
Nineteen-year-old Portia Adams has always been inquisitive. There’s nothing she likes better than working her way through a mystery. When her mother dies, Portia puzzles over why she was left in the care of the extravagant Mrs. Jones but doesn’t have long to dwell on it before she is promptly whisked from Toronto to London by her new guardian. Once there Portia discovers that she has inherited 221 Baker Street — the former offices of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Travel Guide
The London of Sherlock Holmes
If goes without saying that any visit to London particularly with this book in hand has to include a visit to where the great fictional literary detective once lived and the house which now Portia Adams inherits. It’s amazing enough to step inside as each room is faithfully furnished with his things, including the books, his pipe and his famous hat.
Immerses yourself in the world of Sherlock Holmes — not so much the world where Sherlock himself lived with the horse drawn carriages and the dimly-lit streets with gas lamps but the London of the 1930s when a Toronto girl finds that someone in her family actually lived during the days of Sherlock Holmes and that now she can get to explore London and the London of Sherlock in particular through a young Canadian girl’s eyes.
Streetview Maps
A) London - 221Baker Street
B) London - Sherlock Statue
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Jewel of the Thames: (Portia Adams 1)
Author/Guide: Angela Misri Destination: London Departure Time: 1930s
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