On the Significance of the Boswells - Bully to Watson!10. The Serpent's Egg - Just the start of a Holmes story, but was very intriguing. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - A bit bizarre!8. The Adventure of the Greatest Gift - Good ending, but I thought it was an unlikely story.7. The Adventure of the Coughing Denist - Very good, featuring Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in the American West.6. Reference many of Holmes stories in passing.5. Mr and Mrs Watson at Home - This is a one act comedy. Holmes (per usual) uses both his deductive prowess and broad knowledge.4. The Riddle of the Golden Monkeys - Great ending featuring Fu Man Chu. The Adventure of the Three Ghosts - Excellent! A great Christmas story that starts similar to Dickens' A Christmas Carol.3. I thought that this was very Doyle-like.2. The Adventure of the Arabian Knight - Very good adventure, featuring Sir Richard Burton and the tomb of King Tut. A collection of ten new adventures and thoughts about Holmes. Other works in this collection include three previously published essays that delve deeper into the daring world of Sherlock Holmes and the imaginative mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Ī very good Holmes book. While you may recognize some of these stories, others-such as "The Serpent's Egg"-are revealed for the very first time. Each of these adventurous tales has been authorized by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The legendary detective is one of the most enduring literary characters of all time, and he appears once more in The Perils of Sherlock Holmes. "The Hound of the Baskervilles." "A Scandal in Bohemia." "The Sign of the Four." These are just a few of the well-known mysteries solved by the one and only Sherlock Holmes.
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"Readers are transported back to another place and time during the series of short stories that pay homage to the legend that is Sherlock Holmes." -Pop Culture Guy "Estleman's style as Watson is better than many."
No excerpt currently exists for this novel."An excellent collection of short stories and essays." - New York Review of Books It's time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create their own destinies. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. Racing against the clock to save Lucinda from certain doom, the Athena Club embarks on a madcap journey across Europe. Where is Lucinda, and what has Professor Van Helsing been doing to his daughter? Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, and Justine reach her in time? Poole.īut when Mary receives a telegram that Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped, the Athena Club must travel to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue yet another young woman who has been subjected to horrific experimentation. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and Mary's sister Diana Hyde have settled into the Jekyll household in London, and although they sometimes quarrel, the members of the Athena Club get along as well as any five young women with very different personalities. Mary Jekyll's life has been peaceful since she helped Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
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