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Very pleasing addition to Watson's memoirsApril 23, 2008 Alistair Duncan(UK) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading the blurb on the back cover of this book can make you think that this book is going to be about Jack The Ripper. That was my first thought and my heart sank as I felt that this idea had already been done to death. However that is not what the story is about at all.
Instead what you get is a very engaging story that is very much in the style of Doyle's original writings. This is hard to achieve (and has eluded many other pastiche writers) but Meyer achieves it admirably.
The only reason I have not given five stars is that I feel that Meyer depicts Holmes as slightly too emotional at times. However it is a minor criticism.
One of the most engaging Holmesian pastichesJune 22, 2007 R. O'Connell 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the most engaging Holmesian pastiches and far more respectful of the "canon" than the author's earlier Seven Percent Solution. Holmes and Watson encounter a gallery of 19th Century figures in a genuinely suspenseful mystery.
