The Limehouse Text : A Novel (Paperback)

from Philip100

The more books I read I think Barker is a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Doc Savage. The Limehouse Text is another good book with no boring sections just good mysteries and action all the way thru.

from writemoves

This is the first Barker and Llewelyn series book that I have read. It mirrors the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and also takes place in turn of century London. Thomas does not write the book as "dry" as Arthur Conan Doyle." There is plenty of action and mayhem. Cyrus Barker is the...

from hardlyhardy

“The Limehouse Text” (2006), despite its bland title, makes a worthy entry in the Barker and Llewelyn series of Victorian mysteries by Will Thomas. Just the third book in the series — there are now more than a dozen — the novel continues with the business of introducing continuing characters for ...

from cathyskye

Protagonist(s): enquiry agent Clive Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewellyn Setting: Limehouse, a predominantly Asian section of Victorian London, England Series: #3 A pawn ticket found among the effects of Barker's previous assistant, Quong, leads Barker and his new assistant, Llewellyn, to L...

from bcquinnsmom

3rd entry in the Barker/Llewellyn series set in Victorian England, we find our heroes in the thick of a dilemma. Cyrus Barker's previous assistant (before Llewellyn, now deceased, has left a clue as to his death. The Scotland Yard Inspector working on the case finds a pawn ticket in the dead assi...