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The Holmes Factor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The Holmes Factor BRIAN FREEMANTLE. Severn, $28.95 (320p) ISBN 0-7278-6207-3
The mundane title gives no hint of the rich panorama of events chronicled in British author Freemantle's second thriller (after 2004's The Holmes Inheritance) starring Sebastian Holmes, Sherlock's audacious son. In 1913, amid suspicions of German meddling in Russia's growing unrest, Sebastian travels to St. Petersburg in the guise of a journalist to check the British legation's rosy reports that all is well under the czar. Sebastian soon learns that all is not well, as he's imprisoned by the secret police, attacked by a crowd of …
