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The biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen.
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The biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. The result is a new life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories that identifies the 'gaps' in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in sequence. Plus an invaluable complete Holmes chronology.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a well-researched and excellently selected collection of stories by many authors. The ordering is based upon the chronology of the life of Sherlock Holmes as reconstructed by the editor who makes considerable contributions to the text thereby.
The only reason I didn't give this five stars is because a few (a very few) of the selections were not really good enough, though all are to a high standard. The best thing about this book is that every contribution is placed into the Doyle canon at least plausibly, and this collection certainly succeeds in extending what we can know of Holmes outside of Dr. Watson's original published accounts in a credible and refined manner.
The only reason I didn't give this five stars is because a few (a very few) of the selections were not really good enough, though all are to a high standard. The best thing about this book is that every contribution is placed into the Doyle canon at least plausibly, and this collection certainly succeeds in extending what we can know of Holmes outside of Dr. Watson's original published accounts in a credible and refined manner.
38 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This 'revised and updated' 2009 edition is a textbook example of how excellent writing can be ruined by atrocious editing. Mis-typed words, bad grammar and, most damaging of all, hopeless punctuation mar almost every page of this edition. This is a terrible shame because the stories themselves are a clever and entertaining collection of Conan Doyle pastiches by acknowledged masters of the genre.
Perhaps the worst victim here is Eric Brown's 'The Vanishing of the Atkinsons', relating the untold story of 'the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee' mentioned by Watson in the opening of 'A Scandal in Bohemia'. Admittedly the story-within-a-story structure presents both the writer and editor with a variety of tricky punctuation challenges, but rarely has that challenge been met so incompetently as that seen here, rendering a perfectly good tale maddeningly unreadable. Conan Doyle expertly illustrated how it should be done in 'The Gloria Scott' and 'The Musgrave Ritual', two stories which should have been more carefully studied by those charged with editing and proof-reading this volume before committing their efforts to print.
Authors of the calibre of Michael Moorcock, Stephen Baxter, H.R.F. Keating and David Langford really deserve better than to be treated like this. It is to be hoped that the publishers will employ some editorial and proofing staff who actually know what they are doing in order to correct all the mistakes for a reprint in the near future.
Perhaps the worst victim here is Eric Brown's 'The Vanishing of the Atkinsons', relating the untold story of 'the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee' mentioned by Watson in the opening of 'A Scandal in Bohemia'. Admittedly the story-within-a-story structure presents both the writer and editor with a variety of tricky punctuation challenges, but rarely has that challenge been met so incompetently as that seen here, rendering a perfectly good tale maddeningly unreadable. Conan Doyle expertly illustrated how it should be done in 'The Gloria Scott' and 'The Musgrave Ritual', two stories which should have been more carefully studied by those charged with editing and proof-reading this volume before committing their efforts to print.
Authors of the calibre of Michael Moorcock, Stephen Baxter, H.R.F. Keating and David Langford really deserve better than to be treated like this. It is to be hoped that the publishers will employ some editorial and proofing staff who actually know what they are doing in order to correct all the mistakes for a reprint in the near future.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have found this a most wonderful book that is hard to put down once you start to read the stories,they nearly all capture the mood and atmosphere that Conan Doyle created with this character and is a book I would heartly recommend to any Sherlock Holmes fans. The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures[[ASIN:1845299264 The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures]
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generally a great collection of stories
An excellent collection of stories based on incidents and other stories mentioned in Conan Doyle's original tales of the great detective. Read more
Published 25 days ago by John Hopper
The next best thing
It is a shame that Conan Doyle wrote so few Sherlock Holmes stories. In the absence of any more from him this is the next best thing - a collection of stories all purporting to be... Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. Skudder
good selection of short stories.
The book was bought as the house of silk was in demand and I was not sure it was going to arrive for Xmas. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Marlene
A great addition to my Holmes collection.....
I have really enjoyed reading these stories...they are a great addition to my Sherlock Holmes collection. Read more
Published 4 months ago by mandynolan
patchy
Some of these stories are very good, nicely capturing the tone of Dr Watson/Conan Doyle, and some, well, aren't. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Graham R. Hill
Excellent read spoiled by many silly spelling errors
I always enjoy a good Sherlock Holmes pastiche and the tales here are all very plausible. The voice of Watson sounds very authentic. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Dr. Sarah Jordan
Lessons in English Grammar
I agree with a previous review on proof reading.
Shouldn't Richard Lancelyn Green's Forward be a Foreword??
Shouldn't Richard Lancelyn Green's Forward be a Foreword??
Published 20 months ago by Loretta
Excellent collection of Holmes pastiches
Like all such collections, the quality varies a bit but there are only one or two duds and most of the stories are good or excellent. Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2009 by Stephen Bishop
Sherlock Holmes books
Having read the entire collection of Conal Doyles SH books I have now started to read SH books submitted by other authors/ess's and am begining to form the opinion that whilst they... Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2009 by R. G. Glover
Excellent collection
Some of these stories excell those of Arthur Conan Doyle himself. I like the way the volume is set out, taking the reader through Holmes's life from his early days of crime... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2009 by Dean McKeown
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