The Adventure of the Notable Bachelorette: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery (New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries)

I hate to be a spoiler, but I thought the book went to hell in a hand basket beginning with Chapt. 9. The first eight chapters had a lot of possibilities, and was a nice unusual divergent adventure for Sherlock Holmes. Mixing the English ideals, and life in London vs. someone from America, who did not quite fit in. But, the idea was interesting, and the was going in the right direction, and was good reading up until Holmes and the good doctor got involved with this Lord Backwater. Then it become almost comical, with the staged play to seek the murderer. The whole idea of the people involved in the play was bordering on silly. And, the convicted Western gal, was left sitting in jail. Not much came of it, until some clown showed up and tried to shoot one of the actors. It seemed almost like after chapt. 9, that one was reading a completely different book. I scanned and skipped the rest, and went right to the Epilogue where I found the answer. Not very well organized, and disappointing.

Good Sherlock interactions - but too long and the solution so so