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Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes don’t stand a chance against Mary Darling, the populist hero the Victorian era never knew it needed.
About the book
In the year 1900, on a snowy evening in London, Mary Darling returns from a dinner party and discovers her children have been kidnapped from their beds. Mary’s husband George rushes to her Uncle Watson for help.
Uncle Watson’s friend, Sherlock Holmes who has been bored of late. Uninvited, he takes on the task of finding the children.
But Mary Darling knows that Holmes can’t save her children. His skills are not helpful in a world of fairies and flying children. She knows that it is up to her to save Wendy, John, and Michael from Peter Pan — even if she has to travel halfway around the world to do it.
About the author — and the idea
I’m Pat Murphy — and I’ve been fascinated by Peter Pan ever since I was a child.
Not the Disney version — I never saw that. I was fascinated by James Barrie’s novel. In Barrie’s book, Neverland is a dangerous place. Reading the novel as an adult, I was amazed by how many different ways a child could die in Neverland.
As I thought about that story over the years, the character who interested me most was Mary Darling — the mother of the children who flew to Neverland. From Mary’s point of view, this is a child abduction story. Wendy, Michael, and John have been kidnapped!
The story really came alive for me when I realized that Mary Darling was Dr. Watson’s niece. Then the game was definitely afoot.
