STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
Holmes by another hand, prehistoric serial killers, Rankin's latest and murderous snapshots
		
	
			IN MYCROFT and Sherlock (Titan, £17.99) by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, rising star at the War Office Mycroft Holmes has no interest in the macabre murders taking place in London in 1872.
The victims are Chinese, so no doubt the killings have something to do with the opium trade — a distasteful business, to be sure, but one that is necessary to protect and promote Britain's interests as a trading power.
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