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[flemmings]

Come to that, the Angel of the Crows would have to be Cumberbatch, wouldn't it? He's the only Holmes who looks even remotely like an angel. I'm just sorry this isn't a whole series. A London whose genii locorum are attached to buildings is a London after my own heart, to say nothing of aetheric doctors and necrophages and respectable werewolves who run respectable hotels. Though of course there ought to be an Angel of London since cities too should have a genius loci.

Otherwise am much better for an acupuncture session today, and my Holmes fan arrived at last. Had been getting chirpy messages-- three to date-- from Fedex to the effect that the fan had been delivered as promised on Friday: to somewhere in Pennsylvania. No word of getting it over the border and I was resigned to not seeing it again in this life. But anyway, here, and needs only to be assembled.

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[kore]

A London whose genii locorum are attached to buildings is a London after my own heart, to say nothing of aetheric doctors and necrophages and respectable werewolves who run respectable hotels. Though of course there ought to be an Angel of London since cities too should have a genius loci.

Yes! I liked the TGE spinoff books but damn, it would be great to have an entire iddy series of this idea.

I do think the structure of the book suffered somewhat from including so many canon stories and following the plots so closely, but it wasn't that bad a flaw -- I just read it straight through so I noticed the pacing got off. But it's a lovely comfort read anyway.

[flemmings]

I couldn't get into TGE so the existence of sequels does me no good. But there's quite enough Holmes canon to furnish several sequels to Crow.