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The Ill Dressed Vagabond reviews No Police Like Holmes a Sherlock Holmes novel by Dan Andriacco

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Described by The Sherlock Holmes Society of London as "An exciting and witty romp" Dan Andriacco's first novel No Police Like Holmes has been a big hit with Holmes fans around the world. It's not a pastiche though, it is a mystery featuring Holmes fans rather than the great detective himself. His first book was Baker Street Beat which is also the name of his blog, contained essays, a pastiche and some radio plays. It's fiction though that Dan really likes to write. Here, one of the main Sherlock Holmes reviewers in the USA, Philip K Jones (aka The Ill Dressed Vagabond) gives us...

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Sherlock Holmes Society of London Review of No Police Like Holmes Dan Andriacco

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"An exciting and witty romp" Dan Andriacco's first book in June this year has been a big hit with Holmes fans around the world and the blog of the same name Baker Street Beat has thousands of visitors. His debut novel, No Police Like Holmes is a mystery featuring Holmes fans rather than the great detective himself. The first main review of the book comes from The Sherlock Holmes Society of London in the current edition of The District Messenger. "An exciting and witty romp – not about Holmes but about his fans. The world’s third-largest private collection of Sherlockiana...

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No Police Like Holmes debut novel from bestselling Sherlock Holmes author Dan Andriacco

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Dan Andriacco's first book in June this year has been a big hit with Holmes fans around the world and the blog of the same name Baker Street Beat has thousands of visitors. Dan refers to both as 'various Sherlockian scribblings and ramblings' and the book's mix of pastiches, radio plays, articles and stories written in the style of a highly articulate fan, is the only book we have that only has 5 star reviews on Amazon, eleven of them at time of writing. What will be interesting is to see the reaction of his growing Holmesian fan base when...

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