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Critiques de livres Sherlock - Éliminer l'impossible

Publié par Steve Emecz le

Critiques de livres Sherlock - Éliminer l'impossible

Reedsy Une lecture agréable sur certaines des nombreuses aventures de Sherlock Holmes (4/5 étoiles). Sherlock Holmes – Éliminez l'impossible est un roman passionnant qui compile six courts mystères dans une collection complète de nouveaux contes amusants de Sherlock Holmes. Dans Le mystère du Bleeding Heart , Holmes et Watson visitent la taverne du Bleeding Heart et découvrent les secrets du Londres médiéval. Dans Dans l'affaire de l'impossible assassin , ils se retrouvent mêlés à un stratagème politique après l'assassinat de deux conseillers turcs. Dans Dans L'aventure de la momie de Cable Street , Holmes prend possession des restes momifiés du Shadwell Slaughterer, un meurtrier...

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Sherlock Book Reviews - The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes Volume 3

Publié par Steve Emecz le

Sherlock Book Reviews - The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes Volume 3

David Marcum The late Kelvin Jones was a Sherlockian legend, a shining beacon for decades, and it was always a thrill to read his Sherlockian scholarship and his pastiches. I first ran across his name in the 1980’s, when his scholarly monographs were on my yearly Christmas lists. Following his numerous masterful analyses of various specialized topics, he turned his attention to writing Holmes pastiches – which particularly caught my interest. But he never stopped his pursuit of the scholarly side of Sherlockiana, as shown in his volumes of The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes. Now, with the third and final book,...

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Sherlock Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript

Publié par Steve Emecz le

Sherlock Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript

David Marcum Daniel D. Victor has been writing Holmes pastiches since the early 1990’s – first a novel, “The Seventh Bullet” (1992), and then a number of short stories (many in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”). But he truly found his Inner Watson with his literary-themed Holmes novels (his “Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati” series). Now he returns with his next entry, wherein Holmes and Watson meet Hamlin Garland, the “Dean of American Letters” – and it’s no surprise that Garland has a case which only Sherlock Holmes can solve. And like many of Victor’s other...

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Sherlock Book Review - The Magician's Trunk - A McCabe and Cody Mystery

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Sherlock Book Review - The Magician's Trunk - A McCabe and Cody Mystery

David Marcum With “The Magician’s Trunk”, Dan Andriacco returns with his thirteenth volume of exceptional stories narrated by Jeff Cody regarding that unique larger-than-life detective Sebastian McCabe. – and counting the earlier short story collection “Murderer’s Row”, there are even more stories than that! Andriacco is writing Golden Age Whodunnits set in modern Erin, Ohio, and with each new adventure, we learn more about these Heroes and their interesting little city. In this volume, we find out more about McCabe and Cody’s backgrounds – about a mentor for one, and a woman out of the past for the other. It’s wonderful to...

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Critiques de livres de Sherlock - Grand Guerrier - Le journal de Sherlock Holmes 1901

Publié par Steve Emecz le

Critiques de livres de Sherlock - Grand Guerrier - Le journal de Sherlock Holmes 1901

Reedsy " Great Warrior : L'intrigue du Sherlock Holmes Diaries est tissée dans les solutions de deux grands mystères que les fans du détective consultant apprécieront. Watson est minimisé. Lestrade est mis à l'écart. Holmes est plus humanisé. » Livre 4 de la série Lady Beatrice . Également disponible sur Amazon USA et Barnes and Noble . Sherlock Holmes a connu des morts plus violentes que la plupart des hommes, mais cette fois, c'est différent. Cette fois, la victime est Meg, la nièce bien-aimée de Mme Hudson. Bientôt, le détective découvre que Meg n'est pas la seule femme à mourir...

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