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Sherlock Holmes Society of London "A lively and captivating tale in which Holmes and Watson assist Inspector Lestrade in investigating the stabbing to death of a man in the East End. The story is set against the backdrop of the Great London Dock Strike of 1889 and draws cleverly on the rising tensions between the dock owners and dock workers at that time. The characters in the tale are well drawn and I particularly liked the inclusion of Scotland Yard’s Inspector Edmund Reid, the real-life detective who helped to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. There are some...

The Sherlock Holmes Society of London "The first President of this Society, S.C. Roberts, once observed “Certain imaginative playwrights, with a greater regard for popular sentiment than for documentary evidence, have boldly portrayed Sherlock Holmes not only as a lover, but as husband and father”. This book is a Sherlock Holmes adventure with heart, states the author. This is a boldly portrayed Holmes who wears his heart on his sleeve, and who not only acquires an adopted daughter, but a wife, namely the by-then-widowed Mrs Irene Norton! The plot weaves together a number of themes; an attempted re-launch of Moriarty’s...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Vincent Starrett called August Derleth’s tales of Solar Pons “the best substitutes for Sherlock Holmes known to this reviewer”. A particular pleasure for me is that, although Pons deliberately models himself on Holmes, he doesn’t pretend to be Holmes. However, the two detectives certainly knew each other, and we can hardly doubt that they worked together — several times, as this latest collection bears witness. We learn that Pons played an essential part in the breaking of Von Bork’s spy ring, and that Holmes, along with Dr Thorndyke and Nayland Smith, had a hand in...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London In Sherlock Holmes pastiches, there is an increasing trend to concentrate not on the Great Detective himself, but on other canonical characters, from police inspectors to Baker Street Irregulars. Susan Knight gives Mrs Hudson centre stage in this tale of murder in the Irish countryside. Feisty, brimming with good common sense and not short of pluck, Knight’s Mrs Hudson is a formidable character and superb story-teller with her own voice, not afraid of speaking up for herself or confiding her opinions to the reader. This is true of all the characters in Knight’s book; each...