TY - BOOK AU - Birkby,Michelle TI - The women of Baker Street T2 - Mrs Hudson and Mary Watson SN - 9781444839562 PY - 2019/// CY - Leicester PB - Thorpe, Charnwood KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - Fiction KW - Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) KW - Women private investigators KW - England KW - London KW - London (England) KW - History KW - 1800-1950 KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - Large type books N2 - 1889: Mrs Hudson, long-suffering landlady of 221b Baker Street, falls ill and collapses in her home, and is whisked off by Dr Watson to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Perhaps she has developed an overactive imagination thanks to her eccentric lodgers, but it seems she is surrounded by patients who all have skeletons in their closets - on a ward with an unusually high mortality rate. And was the quiet murder she believed she witnessed on her first night simply a hallucination through a haze of morphine, or something more sinister? Meanwhile, Dr Watson's wife Mary has another case in hand. Young boys have been disappearing unnoticed from London's streets for years, and the Baker Street Irregulars whisper morbid rumours of their fates ER -