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Gramercy (1999), Epub, 352 pages
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From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!
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LibraryThing member ryn_books
Adrian Conan Doyle (the son) & John Dickson Carr cash in on Sherlock fame by creating new short cases from phrases in the original stories.
e.g. "The Seven Clocks" is created from a sentence in the original 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; "From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his
I do like many shared-universe compilations, but think that retroactive ones (like this one)are mostly 'good try - no zing'.
These new cases attempt to faithfully adhere to the original language and rhythm, but end up feeling a parody of Holmes rather than new Holmes cases.
e.g. "The Seven Clocks" is created from a sentence in the original 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; "From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his
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summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff Murder".I do like many shared-universe compilations, but think that retroactive ones (like this one)are mostly 'good try - no zing'.
These new cases attempt to faithfully adhere to the original language and rhythm, but end up feeling a parody of Holmes rather than new Holmes cases.
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LibraryThing member salvadesswaran
The only pastiche that is faithful to the canon in every conceivable manner.
LibraryThing member Crypto-Willobie
For my money this is the best Holmes pastiche out there. Unlike all the others it sounds like in was written in the 1890s by Doyle himself.
LibraryThing member oku
This book include three short stories. In three stories,"A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA"is my favorite one. Sherlock Holmes doesn't love. But he has one woman who he can't forget. Her name is Iren Adler. This is the story of her.
Holmes is a wonderful private detective,and he always solves amuder case. But
Holmes is a wonderful private detective,and he always solves amuder case. But
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only this time, he can't. So this story is different from other Holmes's story. It's very interesting and I enjoyed very much. So I recommend this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member tuckerresearch
If you're going to read Sherlock Holmes pastiches, you eventually should read The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1954 and written by Adrian Conan Doyle, the son of Arthur Conan Doyle, and and John Dickson Carr, Arthur Conan Doyle's biographer. It is an early collection of pastiches and
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by people so intimately connected with the originator of Sherlock Holmes. I worried though, because Adrian Conan Doyle has been described as a "spendthrift playboy" who (with his brother Denis) "used the Conan Doyle estate as a milch-cow." And the first two stories, and mysteries, I thought, were dreadful. After that, however, some of them were better, entertaining, and even good. As pastiches go, they captured the stories fairly well. Though Watson was never so precise in his dates. And, these stories make the same allusions to quirks in the Canon that are shoved in as winks and nods to Sherlockians, but come across as shoved in and corny. So every story mentions the gasogene, or the Persian slipper, or the jackknife, or the God-awful deerstalker, or insert Holmes trope reference here. Instead of giving a nod and imparting a smile, I roll my eyes and think of the milch-cow. Still, as Holmes pastiches go, this is an important, historic collection, and a good diversion. Show Less
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1954
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A collection of Sherlock Holmes Adventures based on unsolved cases from the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories.