When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle Michal Dibdin has done an excellent job of invoking the feel and tone of a Holmesian story. The snide and condensing way that Holmes treats everyone he meets. The kindness and slight dimwittedness of Watson. The grudging respect of Detective Lestrade. And the many small ways in which Sherlock Holmes shows himself to be of a superior mind. There is the common enough ploy of having a lost manuscript surface in which one more tale of the Great Detective comes to light. …
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Cleaving
Like reading a sequel to The Wizard of Oz where we follow Dorothy in her new life as a crack whore. Julie Powell was so pissed off that Nora Ephron made her look like a nice person in the movie Julie & Julia that she has gone far above and beyond the call of duty to prove just what an evil bitch she really is. As with Arthur Conan Doyle going a little bit overboard by killing Sherlock Holmes, Julie Powell goes a little bit over board in making her character of Julie pathetic, evil, twisted, and as likable as…
A Slight Trick of The Mind by Mitch Cullin
The Sherlock Holmes we met in A Slight Trick of The Mind is a 93 year man that walks with two canes and seems to be losing what is left of his once great mind. It is a sad tale that is soaked with nostalgia for the days gone by when Holmes could solve a crime just by looking at the mud on a shoe’s heel or listening to the twang of an accent. Holnes still cares for bees and still roams around the world. He visits the site of the Hiroshima Nuclear Attack and marvels at the steel skeleton…