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David Marcum  I’ve literally collected and read thousands of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and after a while, one begins to encounter adventures that are not related by Watson. Others who knew Holmes – Wiggins (many of them), Mrs. Watson (all of them), Mycroft, Irene Adler, and Professor Moriarty, to name a few – also have tales to tell. And there are just as many stories that are related in third-person. This is one of those, and freeing it from Watson’s narrative pen gives it a different aspect of realism and violence than one comes to expect from The Canon. I don’t...

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Sherlock Holmes Society of London A most refreshing book from a British writer, pleasingly almost completely devoid of the inappropriate transatlanticisms that I so often find in pastiches, and which I always deplore. The absence of hackneyed references to a tin dispatch box is noted and greatly appreciated. Whilst remaining firmly within Canonical tradition and Watsonian prose style, the author has neatly avoided the many other clichés that mar similar works, and has also managed to introduce a few minor touches that are new, and yet by no means out of place. This is, I note from the final page,...