Lord John and the Hand of Devils

from fyrefly98

Individual Summaries and Reviews: Lord John and the Hand of Devils is a collection of short stories (really one regular length story and two longer novellas) that are interspersed between the full-length Lord John novels. "Lord John and the Hellfire Club" is the shortest work in the bunch, and ch...

from Raven

This is a collection: one short story, Lord John and the Hellfire Club, and two novellas, Lord John and the Succubus and ...Haunted Soldier. Hellfire Club is slight, a a 20-page short story that is more an idea than an actual story; it's the two novellas that form the meat of the book. Succubus i...

from alana_leigh

Lord John and the Hands of Devils is a collection that contains three Lord John mysteries... one simply called a short story and the other two meriting the designation "novella" from the author. Prior to starting the Lord John novels, I should have done a bit of research, as the first of these st...

from MickyFine

A collection of three Lord John novellas. All three are excellent pieces of historical fiction full of insights into one of my favourite side characters of the Outlander series. My favourite of the three was the third novella, which looks at the ramifications of events from the previous novel on ...

from surreality

Plot: Three novellas which fit into gaps between other books in the Outlander/Lord John universe, all of them set up as mysteries. Only one really works as a mystery, while the other two very quickly turn too convoluted and the solution is not convincing. Characters: Lord John, who is portrayed w...