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Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Tomb of Terror by Val Andrews ISBN: 0-947533-72-9 Publisher: Breese Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Holmes in the Sahara...
Comment: British journalist and magician Val Andrews has written too many Holmes pastiches for me to easily count, during the past decade and a half. Most have been published lately by British magic publisher Martin Breese, who says this particular novel is his favorite. It is told in a somewhat more leisurely manner, with more attention to period detail and style, than the usual Andrews offering.
Holmes and Watson are basically blackmailed into a dangerous expedition to a little-known Saharan kingdom, where they wind up being buried alive in the tomb of a recently dead king! Despite the carefully wrought motif of Victorian adventure throughout (H. Rider Haggard is explicitly referred to), Holmes is treated according to the Conan Doyle Canon pretty much, although at novel's end Mycroft is seen doing something utterly preposterous--- at least for Mycroft. The payoff regarding a "mysterious mineral" in the lost kingdom is also pretty thin stuff.
In general I enjoyed it, and if you like other novels by Andrews, you're certain to like this one. By the way, magician Andrews has Holmes use a couple of sideshow magic stunts in the course of the novel; watch for them.
Rating: 1
Summary: Can you say "boring"?
Comment: A total waste of my book money. This author doesn't catch the Holmes/Waton/Mycroft characters at all. A collector's item, maybe, just for the Holmes name on the book, but the storyline is weak and ho-hum. I don't recommend this book at all.
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Title: Shadows over Baker Street by Michael Reaves, John Pelan ISBN: 0345455282 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Singular Adventures of Mr. Sherlock Holmes by Alan Stockwell ISBN: 1843750104 Publisher: Upso Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Ted Riccardi ISBN: 1400060656 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Story for Which the World Is Not Yet Prepared by Stephen Pierce ISBN: 1401053920 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara by Alan Vanneman, Otto Penzler ISBN: 078671297X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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