The Miseries of Mr. Sparrows, by Matthew Timmins
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Robin Sparrows is no Great Detective. He's not a dashing gentleman. He's not even a stalwart companion. No, Mr. Sparrows is a humble and hapless clerk at Winston Winston & Crumpet, the wickedest law firm in all of Victoria's empire. But when he is charged with delivering a mysterious box to the arch-fiend Kermit J. Tarnish his life of quiet misery is transformed into a quagmire of murder, mud, and madness. Unwilling, unaided, and unprepared, Robin must wander the fog-drenched streets of the Capital hunting the last man he wants to find. But exactly who is hunting whom? What can one young law clerk really know about love? And how much trouble can one frog cause? At least some of these questions will be answered as Robin confronts brutish valets, quarrelsome cross-dressers, dithering policemen, forlorn soldiers, and sneering phantoms, before learning the scandalous truth behind a shameful war. Truly, there is no rest unto the wicked, nor it seems, unto their clerks.
The Miseries of Mr. Sparrows, by Matthew Timmins- Amazon Sales Rank: #1042104 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-12
- Released on: 2015-11-12
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Joy in Misery By Scott Harris While most authors these days seem to spend their time trying to cash in on the latest hot trend, with this book Matthew Timmins chooses to buck those trends instead, and its the reader that gets to cash in as a result. Blending a classic Victorian narrative style with elements of both detective and fantasy novels, "The Miseries of Mr. Sparrows" delivers a fully formed world so well realized you begin to wonder if our reality is actually the fictional one. This novel's whimsical delights can only be experienced, not described, so stop reading reviews, and start reading "The Miseries of Mr. Sparrows."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Delightfully bizarre By E. Flagg Readers are in for a treat with this unusual novel. Matthew Timmins has crafted a delightfully bizarre, Dickensian novel which brings to mind Joan Aiken's Dido Twite series -- the history seems "true", but it's deliberately new, a little off, and wonderfully so. Timmins's Mr. Sparrows is an anti-hero, someone who takes delight in tricking the butler yet does not believe in his own value and ability. Nevertheless, his natural desire for self-preservation brings him through multiple adventures. I enjoyed the complex setting, thoroughly developed story, alternate "historical" references, and character vignettes. I'm looking forward to reading more of Mr. Sparrows's further miseries.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Dickensian in its squalor and cartoonish humour, Wodehousiean in style By Matthew Rettino Picture a cold, damp hut, surrounded by mischievous crows, on the banks of a swollen river, against the backdrop of a smoky, nineteenth-century city awash in crime lifted straight out of a penny dreadful. Add this to the miserable squalor: that the resident of said hut, one Robin Sparrows, serves as office clerk to a predatory law firm whose motto, Lupi pastores erunt, means ‘the wolves shall shepherd them.’ Not exactly the image of a virtuous law practice, although its clerks do command a respect of their own. It is this dank, putrid, and, yes, miserable world that Mister Sparrows must navigate in order to solve a case that will carry him everywhere from the slimiest sewers to the poshest neighborhoods.Claudon is the capital city of Albion and a metropolis of a far-stretching empire–quite like London in its Victorian heyday. News of distant wars from the colonies stirs its population into patriotic fervor, the singing of anthems and ballads, and hero worship. One such hero, Captain Dearing, will present a gift to the ambassador of Crocodon, a set of graven images, to help ease tensions following the Crocodile War. Against this backdrop, Sparrows must deliver a mysterious package to the infamous blackguard Kermit J. Tarnish.The Scoundrel of the Empire, the Shame of His Majesty’s Redcoats, Tarnish committed the unpardonable crime of kidnapping the Crocodon princess. Sparrows’s mission is a top secret delivery to Tarnish’s dark prison cell, but to apply Murphy’s law, not everything goes according to plan.Dickensian in its squalor and cartoonish humour, each chapter titled with the “In which” of a nineteenth-century novel, The Miseries of Mister Sparrows cannot help but make the reader laugh at its quirky characters and the–need I say miserable?–circumstances into which Mr. Sparrows constantly stumbles headlong. There is some intentional slapstick to the humour at the same time as you feel Mr. Sparrows’s cold plight seep into your bones. Matthew Timmins boldly sets out to pastiche the humour of P.G. Wodehouse, a task at which few have succeeded. Since I myself have never read Wodehouse, I will leave it to the discerning leader to judge his success. However, the playful nineteenth-century style he opens his novel with remains consistent until the end, a real accomplishment that lends a great texture to the novel.
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