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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes: Dr. John Watson (A Sherlock Holmes Mystery) | 
 enlarge | Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: ibooks
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 405618
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0743423925
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743423922
ASIN: 0743423925
Publication Date: November 19, 2001
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 Give this a miss September 7, 2007
Matthew Mercy (Wigan, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Possibly the least imaginative, daftest Sherlock Holmes pastiche I have read, Loren D. Estleman's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes is a boring, annoying book that sees fit merely to re-play the exact narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella. The sole alteration to the original is the substitution of Holmes into the investigator role taken in the original by solicitor Utterson, who is here reduced to a minor supporting part. This is lazy, unimaginative writing; Estleman has taken the plot of one book and the lead characters from somewhere else, and cobbled them together for what is supposed to be a `new' story. My response is `big deal'.
Problems with this book appear thick and fast. The structure is crippled from the first chapter, in that by following the structure of the original novel, Estleman's take on Jekyll and Hyde is also supposed to be a mystery with a twist ending. But because we, as readers, know what the twist is before we start reading, we assume the ludicrous position of always knowing more than Sherlock Holmes, which runs contrary to the whole point of Sherlock Holmes stories. American Estleman once again falls into all the usual traps US writers encounter when they try to write a Sherlock Holmes story; American expressions like `trash basket' strike wrong notes when supposedly used by Dr. Watson. Yet again we are delving into Watson's `unpublished' files, the hackneyed device that so many writers have used to explain how they came up with another Sherlock Holmes adventure at this late date; and Estleman's balderdash, about an American soldier finding the manuscript stuffed into the wall of a French farmhouse during WW2, is even more flabby and stupid than usual. Also, some of Estleman's characters and expressions are like something from The Two Ronnies' Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town skit; `Fanny Flanagan, Edinburgh prostitute from 333 MacTavish Place', indeed. Worst of all is the ending, in which Holmes persuades a young writer called Robert Louis Stevenson to leave himself and Dr. Watson out of the story, and publish it as `fiction'(!).
A pointless, suspense-free book that turns Holmes into a caricature of himself and re-tells a classic horror story about 5% as effectively as the original, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes is a very silly book indeed.
 Infinitely superior to "Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula" March 2, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a prequel to Estleman's earlier, rather pointless Holmes pastiche, and is streets ahead of it - a far more intense mystery, which works brilliantly even though we know the solution. It loses a star over a few niggles - Watson's inconsistent level of intelligence (though Doyle himself drew a now-bright, now-dim Watson), and the dialogue in the Edinburgh scenes (the slang is far too English: I am a Scot and it didn't ring at all true).I suppose one difference is that there's room for Holmes in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: it *is* a mystery, it has a small enough cast for a few more characters to be a positive improvement (as opposed to the overpopulated Dracula), and he is far more at home in a world of dubious science crossed with psychological drama than in one of out-and-out fantasy. Best of all, though, is the gloomy and oppressive feel of nineteenth-century London and Edinburgh, which Estleman captures far more successfully here than in SHvD - perhaps because Stevenson's mastery of it was even greater than that of Doyle or Stoker (no mean feat). SHvD is a curiosity: DJaMH is an ornament to the respective canons of horror and mystery.
Holmes battles with the dark side! March 5, 2002
Guy K. Crossland
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This a particularly good Holmes pastiche in that it combines two great Victorian characters or should I say three?!Estleman creates an effective blend of horror and detective work as Holmes pursues his quarry all over the streets of London.Very often Holmes books are not balanced in that they view Holmes as a superman figure.However this story manages to avoid this and has Holmes been outwitted at times by his potential prey.My only slight complaint is that Watson really does come across as a bit on the slow side!
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