{"id":1961,"date":"2011-04-13T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:19:11","slug":"book-review-girl-who-wanted-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2011\/04\/13\/book-review-girl-who-wanted-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Girl Who Wanted to be Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YdPIRW2A9Ps\/TaYTZju_YiI\/AAAAAAAAA6o\/iQGcqC-vHTM\/s1600\/Shirley.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shirley.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s a Bill Crider novel on Kindle for $2.99. &nbsp;That&#8217;s all I really needed to know. &nbsp;Besides, I didn&#8217;t really want to spend all day working on my taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The YA mystery novel is a fun read. &nbsp;The main character is a honest and solid guy with a girlfriend(?) Shirley Homes that makes me want to read more of these. &nbsp;The mystery and its unraveling was entertaining and I figured it out just slightly before the characters did. &nbsp;If mystery stories are like video games, then I guess I won. &nbsp;If you have a Kindle or the Kindle software on your PC or Mac or phone, then it&#8217;s an easy call. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Girl-Wanted-Sherlock-Holmes-ebook\/dp\/B004W4MKX0\">Buy it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it&#8217;s a Bill Crider novel on Kindle for $2.99. &nbsp;That&#8217;s all I really needed to know. &nbsp;Besides, I didn&#8217;t really want to spend all day working on my taxes. The YA mystery novel is a fun read. &nbsp;The main character is a honest and solid guy with a girlfriend(?) Shirley Homes that makes me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2011\/04\/13\/book-review-girl-who-wanted-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: The Girl Who Wanted to be Sherlock Holmes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,174,115],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shirley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-vD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}