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Title: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Norton Paperback) by Nicholas Meyer ISBN: 0-393-31119-8 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: an excellent Sherlock Holmes pastiche
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and was very impressed with it. I checked it out from the library to read it but I'm definitely buying a copy for myself. First of all, it was just a well written and entertaining book. Some scenes were hilarious while others were postively heartbreaking. Secondly, I found it to be very true to the spirit of Doyle's stories and to his Holmes and Watson. I felt that Meyer did an excellent job with Holmes' character. Holmes was slightly different from what he was in the canon but I felt that this could have been how Doyle would have written Holmes had he ever chosen to write a story such as this. Meyer also had Holmes and Watson's relationship down to perfection. I loved how he seemed to realize how important Watson was to Holmes. The deductions in the book were also very good. Most of them were worthy of Sir Arthur himself. I also liked Meyer's footnotes. I thought they were cool. What I loved most about the book though was that I got the strong impression that it was written out of a love for the canon and not out of a love for the money. The book appeared to have been written by someone who had read and re-read the canon and not by someone who was getting all their information from the Basil Rathbone movies.
I should add that the book does deviate from the canon so I have to advise caution if you're a purist. The book gives a different explanation for the Great Hiatus and Moriarty isn't portrayed as Doyle wrote him. I can understand how some people could have a problem with this. I admit that I did too at first. But I don't anymore. Although I love Doyle's Holmes stories, I realize that they are not perfect. They are not without their faults and contradictions and I feel that those who love the canon the most are the ones who will try to correct the faults and explain away the contradictions. And I felt that that was the reason for the book's deviation from the canon. So I would highly recommend it unless you just can't tolerate a deviation from Doyle's work.
Rating: 5
Summary: The game's afoot!
Comment: One of my all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and the one that started the revival of interest in Sherlock Holmes in the 1970's.
Watson tricks Holmes into going to Vienna to get cured of his cocaine habit by Sigmund Freud. While there, Holmes becomes involved in a case involving one of Freud's patients. Soon, "The Game is Afoot!," and a recovering Holmes, Watson, and Dr. Freud are off to solve the mystery.
Can't recommend this highly enough, and also recommend the movie based on the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Game's Afoot!
Comment: One of my all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and the one that started the revival of interest in Sherlock Holmes in the 1970's.
Watson tricks Holmes into going to Vienna to get cured of his cocaine habit by Sigmund Freud. While there, Holmes becomes involved in a case involving one of Freud's patients. Soon, "The Game is Afoot!," and a recovering Holmes, Watson, and Dr. Freud are off to solve the mystery.
Can't recommend this highly enough, and also recommend the movie based on the book.
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Title: The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer ISBN: 0393311538 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson by Nicholas Meyer ISBN: 0393312410 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan Doyle ISBN: 0517203383 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 11 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by D. H. Howe, Arthur Conan Doyle ISBN: 0195853350 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King ISBN: 0553571656 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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