Book review: Bonnie Macbird’s The Three Locks
The Three Locks By Bonnie MacBird Reviewed by Ardy Having read and enjoyed Bonnie Macbird’s previous Holmes pastiches, I was excited to have this one arrive on my doorstep... More »
Book Reviews
Book Review: Mick Finlay’s “Arrowood and the Thames Corpses”
The third volume in the Arrowood series, after Arrowood and The Murder Pit, is set in the summer of 1896. It is seethingly hot and journalist turned private detective... More »
Last-Minute Holiday Gifts?!
First of all, I must apologise to the lovely writers who sent me their books to review as I did not manage to do so until now. The last... More »
Book Review: Sherlock Unlocked
Sherlock Unlocked is quite a delightful read. With the resurgence of Sherlock Holmes over the past decade, it stands to reason that more than one author would try their... More »
Review: Mick Finlay’s The Murder Pit – An Arrowood Mystery
Mick Finlay’s second novel about Sherlock Holmes’s gritty, south of the river-living rival detective William Arrowood is set in early January, 1896. Everything is cold, frozen and grey, and... More »
Book Review: S. F. Bennett: The Secret Diary of Mycroft Holmes
The book carries the subtitle The Thoughts and Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes’s Elder Brother 1880-1888. It is not quite clear whether this book, which is playing the Game, carries... More »
Book Review: Mick Finlay: Arrowood
When I first read about Arrowood as an anti-Holmes, I was intrigued. Of course Sherlock Holmes himself constantly criticizes fictional detectives, and Mick Finlay set out to create a... More »
Book Review: Mark A. Latham: A Betrayal in Blood
I am restarting my review backlog with the first of a bunch of pastiches that combine the Holmes stories with another work of Victorian literature. Latham’s pastiche takes... More »
Book Review: Tim Symonds: Sherlock Holmes and the Sword of Osman
It is rare that I pick up a Holmes pastiche and immediately fall in love with it – but it happened with this book. Symonds managed to catch the... More »
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil
As in Sherlock Holmes and the Sword of Osman Tim Symonds’s Sherlock Holmes and the Nine-Dragon Sigil takes John Watson and Sherlock Holmes to the furthest reaches of the... More »