Some Danger Involved

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Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas

My co-worker Barbara left this Victorian crime novel in my box recently thinking I might enjoy it and boy did I ever!  In this book we are introduced to a Sherlock and Holmes type pair who call themselves private enquiry agents hired by a Jewish 'don' in London to discover the murderer of a young Jewish scholar by crucification.  Set in a time when London was teeming with Jews fleeing the pograms of eastern europe, the fear amongst the community is that England, where they have sought refuge, will be the next place to persecute them. 
When Cyrus Barker an eccentric and exotic aesthete takes the case, he must hire an assistant and chooses the down on his luck but gutsy Thomas Llewelyn.  Together they scour Londons teeming underground, with Barker teaching Llewlyn his peculiar form of vigilante detective work, to discover the shocking truth about the murder.  A real page turner; I can't wait to read the sequel, To Kingdom Come.