I finished this book a couple weeks ago and honestly I don't remember much of the story. It's an acceptable Sherlock book though. ( )

Loved this audio book. As an author telling stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson nothing felt stilted or fake, it could have been ACDoyle writing them. ( )

As a fan or Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes since the age of eleven, I've always been disappointed by the derivative works (except for the film with Robert Downey, Jr.). Donald Thomas's Holmes is no exception: his Holmes, while never antithetical to the original, just doesn't feel Holmes-y enough to make me love him. That said, Thomas writes good mysteries. If they're a little dry at times, that's because Thomas is a historian--and an excellent one--and in these novellas history fills in where characterization leaves off. On the other hand, these novellas provide a delightful way to study history, because they insert Holmes into real historical situations, and Thomas' knowledge of historic minutiae is encyclopedic. But when Thomas puts Holmes into literary history, the plot just takes off and soars. Maybe I'm biased, but I love the stories involving the Brownings or Swinburne or Wilde, and I ABSOLUTELY love Thomas's solution to Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw." Way to combine some of my favorites, Professor Thomas! It's as much fun as "A Fistful of Datas" on "Star Trek"! ( )

Pastiche ( )