I love literature and music. This blog has to do with these—Books (book reviews, articles, essays, authors, etc.), Poetry (loved poems and poets), and Music (songwriters, musicians, bands, songs, lyrics, etc.) They are treasures built up from the same basic building block viz; word(s). Hence the title of this Blog—'Treasures in Words!'
While we look on helplessly, the flesh trade industry takes a toll on thousands upon thousands of poor girls, many of them minors, who are lured, trapped, and sold into a life of shame. Usually, they are forced into exploitation in vice dens. They find their captors too powerful to fight against and prevail. And if threatened, their captors may kill them. This renders them helpless, and because the industry receives tacit support/protection from highly placed persons in governments and law enforcement, it’s practically impossible to root out the flesh trade for good.
However, affected individuals like parents, siblings, and friends cannot sit back—they must fight until they get justice. Outraged by the injustices, some noble souls in the public, not directly related to the victims, also join the fight. In this book, Holmes and his associates fight the wily operatives of the velvet underworld of Victorian England on two occasions to pay them back for their utter wickedness—the first in Cambridge, around 1868, and the second in London, around 1893.
What makes the book stand out is the author’s innovativeness in writing two interlinked mysteries involving the same villain, spaced 25 years apart.
I recommend this book to all fans of Sherlock Holmes worldwide.
Talking of the world of Sherlock Holmes novels, I think the plot rarely gets more complex than in this one.
The Clockmaker’s Bequest is a traditional, full-length Holmes story. The plot revolves around the murder of a brilliant clockmaker and technology wizard who creates a highly advanced clock before his death. The chimes consist of unique musical sequences. Coded within the chimes is the killer’s name.
Holmes needs to crack this complex code to find the killer.
I found it enjoyable and definitely worth reading.
In this crossover story, Holmes comes face-to-face with an odious, Ripper-like serial killer. Their intelligence matches.
The killer is bold and cunning, and a master of disguise. Despite Holmes's best efforts, nine deaths must happen before he and the London police trap and arrest the perpetrator.
Who could the brilliant enemy be? If it isn’t Prof. Moriarty or one of his minions, then who else?
Let’s find out by reading this captivating detective novel.
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Jean-Cédric Michel’s thriller novel The Robin Hood Formula
takes aim at one of the most mind-boggling aspects of modern America: the vast and widening gulf between executive compensation
and the wages of ordinary workers. Framed around the startling statistic that a CEO may earn up to 6500 times the salary of an
average employee, the book uses story as a medium for moral interrogation as much as for entertainment.
The story follows a group of gifted friends from USA’s Ivy League institutions who turn furious when they recognize the depth of this insanely outrageous and cruel economic gap. They form a team and come together to devise a solution to address it.
They know that when it’s time to deploy their solution, they must fight
against and prevail a last battle with the powerful, deeply entrenched nexus between dirt-rich corporations and the heavyweights of
America’s capitalist government, who would swiftly and effortlessly crush any remedial effort they find! Realizing that sagacity,
not force, will be necessary to win the last step against the nexus, they devise a modern Robin Hood strategy to reclaim the unfairly
gained wealth held by corporations and redistribute it to the workforce that was cheated.
Like a basketball player intending to shoot, they skillfully dribble past the enemy's defense until they are at shooting distance,
and then successfully shoot the ball it into the basket above.
However, victory isn't free and they suffer significant losses at the
hand of the enemy before they finally prevailing. Proceed to the review now?
