Eye of the Crow by Peacock Shane - Book Report/Review Example

Sherlock Holmes' only hope is to rely on innate and inborn wits to make his life meaningful and worth living. Despite his tender age, his wits are underpinned in keen observatory powers where he takes an interest in constructing histories from vague details to the amusement of the people he meets. In an attempt to entertain himself, Holmes directs his newfound hobby into a sensational murder case with an aim of solving it. However, things pun out differently and take a turn for the worse when he becomes the accused instead of being the hero he imagined himself to be and bearing in mind that children of thirteen years can be hanged in London.

Peacock narrates the story with an exemplary authenticity of a person who knows children’s creativity so that Holmes’ predicament and creativity can appeal to a wider audience. The book is only equalled and paralleled in scope and effectiveness by Bunting Eve’s The Pirate Captain’s Daughter (Sleeping Bear, 2011), although the context of the two books is quite different. - Tabitha Nordby, Red River College, Winnipeg, MB.