HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Loading...

Sherlock Holmes: Mysteries of the Victorian Era

by Rock DiLisio

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingConversations
722,367,348 (1)None
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian era lives again in some of the most baffling adventures that Watson has ever recorded. Holmes and Watson find that some of their investigations are more complex and bizarre than most and Sherlock Holmes battles his greatest fear, the unexplained. Sherlock Holmes must use his fine-tuned skills and knowledge of science and biology to decipher some of the most interesting cases he has ever faced. Can lightning strike without a storm? Do Zombies exist? Can a spool of copper wire be an accessory to a crime? Can it be that apparitions are among us? The thick London fog rolls over the cobblestone streets.....it's the Victorian era........it's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson......and the game is afoot!… (more)
None
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

Showing 2 of 2
Disappointing, at least he first of the stories in this small collection. The author failed to consider that he is writing for people in the 21st century. Doyle could have written about a test tube full of liquid Nitrogen in 1890 and gotten away with it. Any educated contemporary reader knows you can't fill a test tube with liquid Nitrogen and have it slowly evaporate from an open glass test tube.

The next 4 stories each get progressively better. I enjoyed the last one quite a bit. Jarring though was the use of the term Ms for unmarried ladies. Its important to avoid modern words in a book set 120 years ago. ( )
  larrymarak | Feb 8, 2013 |
This is a collection of five cases, written up by Dr. Watson without benefit of his notes, which had been lost. There is no particular theme to the stories and they represent varied plots and they are placed at various times... On the whole, this collection was disappointing. My initial reaction was colored by my surprise at the solution to the first mystery and my disbelief of that solution. The other tales do not present that kind of error and some are fairly interesting. However, the confused cultural setting in the "Pinson Manor" detracted from the story's readability, and the solution of Jackthorn Circle was a disappointment, leaving two satisfactory stories out of five.
Reviewed by: Philip K. Jones, March 2004
  mmckay | Apr 11, 2006 |
Showing 2 of 2
no reviews | add a review
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
First words
Quotations
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian era lives again in some of the most baffling adventures that Watson has ever recorded. Holmes and Watson find that some of their investigations are more complex and bizarre than most and Sherlock Holmes battles his greatest fear, the unexplained. Sherlock Holmes must use his fine-tuned skills and knowledge of science and biology to decipher some of the most interesting cases he has ever faced. Can lightning strike without a storm? Do Zombies exist? Can a spool of copper wire be an accessory to a crime? Can it be that apparitions are among us? The thick London fog rolls over the cobblestone streets.....it's the Victorian era........it's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson......and the game is afoot!

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (1)
0.5
1 1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 204,451,910 books! | Top bar: Always visible