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THE PROBLEM OF THE SURLY SERVANT: A Charles Dodgson/Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery.(Review)(Brief Article)

Publishers Weekly

| July 09, 2001 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ROBERTA ROGOW. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-26638-3

Friction between town and gown simmers at the center of Rogow's (The Problem of the Evil Editor) latest and entertaining literary-historical mystery. Young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, not yet famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories (it's the spring of 1886), and his wife, Touie, interrupt a trip to northern England to aid their friend, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), when the Christ Church don becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a surly, thieving, blackmailing Oxford University scout (servant). Confined to his college by Dean Liddell, the father of Alice and her sisters -- for whom the …

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