- Hardcover: 310 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur (7 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312291442
- ISBN-13: 978-0312291440
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,071,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good, but not Kurland's best
20 April 2006
Format:Hardcover
THE EMPRESS OF INDIA is a pretty good read, even though there are too many oddball characters and the identity of the gold thief is obvious. I've read all of Michael Kurland's Moriarty books even though I'm not crazy about the idea that the professor is an innocent victim of Holmes' bizarre obsession about a master criminal - that idea had already been used in THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION. The biggest fault here is that Holmes is missing for most of the story, robbing the reader of his exchanges with Moriarty. THE GREAT GAME was better, they were forced to work together in that one.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Kurland is brilliant
17 Jun 2008
Format:Hardcover
This author has definitely found his niche. All of the Moriarty and Holmes books by this author very much work in conjunction with the original Holmes stories or as stand alone stories.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"Research? What's that?"
29 Aug 2011
I'll admit, I get inordinately annoyed by boneheaded mistakes in period novels that could have easily been fixed had the writer done even a smidgen of research. Unfortunately, this book is loaded to the gills with some of the most glaring mistakes I've ever seen in professionally published fiction.
I should have known that this book would raise my blood pressure when, in the very first section, the Honourable Eustace Bergarot is referred to *by Watson* as "Honourable Bergarot".
"Honourable Bergarot", I bleeping kid you not.
And it goes downhill from there: a brigadier-general in the British Army?? This is only one of the gobsmackers you'll find. It's just...feh, I have better things to do than to read a book about Victorian England written by someone who won't even do the most basic research.
I should have known that this book would raise my blood pressure when, in the very first section, the Honourable Eustace Bergarot is referred to *by Watson* as "Honourable Bergarot".
"Honourable Bergarot", I bleeping kid you not.
And it goes downhill from there: a brigadier-general in the British Army?? This is only one of the gobsmackers you'll find. It's just...feh, I have better things to do than to read a book about Victorian England written by someone who won't even do the most basic research.
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