Who is Mary Darling? In this smartly subversive Victorian mash-up starring legendary literary characters―Peter Pan's Mary Darling and Sherlock Holmes―the mother of the Darling children is on the case despite the meddling of both her inept husband and a clueless Sherlock. 'Outstanding characters, a deep understanding of her new fictional world, and clever storytelling round out a novel that's as exciting as it is emotionally satisfying.'--Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series Mary Darling is a pretty wife whose boring husband is befuddled by her independent ways. But one fateful night, Mary becomes the distraught mother whose three children have gone missing from their beds. After her well-meaning uncle John Watson contacts the greatest detective of his era (but not that great), Mary is Sherlock Holmes's prime suspect in her children's disappearance. To save her family, Mary must escape an attempt to have her locked away as mad, and to travel halfway around the world. Along
