Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (Further Advent/Sherlock Holmes) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"Sherlock Holmes' dialogue is razor sharp. Guy Adams does a great job of writing Holmes... I'd recommend this for Sherlock Holmes fans." --Never Not a Nerd
"Smartly written in the familiar Holmes style, the book has a crisp wit, high adventure, knowing nods to literary fans, and a well plotted mystery." --The Daily Rotation
"A tremendous amount of fun." --Hellnotes
"The Breath of God is an adventure worth taking" --The Trades
"The story is engrossing, with lots of twists." --Anything Horror
"A must-read for fans of Sherlock Holmes." --2-Bit Geek
"Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God plays out its mystery with an intriguing action aspect, spurred onward with fusion of supernatural and weird fiction. It's an intelligently written book." --Spooky Reads
"A gripping and well-written tale... Adams' characters are engaging, and his setting is colorful and evocative." --Nerd Caliber
"A must-read for fans of Sherlock Holmes." --2-Bit Geek
"Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God plays out its mystery with an intriguing action aspect, spurred onward with fusion of supernatural and weird fiction. It's an intelligently written book." --Spooky Reads
"Smartly written in the familiar Holmes style, the book has a crisp wit, high adventure, knowing nods to literary fans, and a well plotted mystery." --The Daily Rotation
"A tremendous amount of fun." --Hellnotes
"The Breath of God is an adventure worth taking" --The Trades
"The story is engrossing, with lots of twists." --Anything Horror
"A must-read for fans of Sherlock Holmes." --2-Bit Geek
"Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God plays out its mystery with an intriguing action aspect, spurred onward with fusion of supernatural and weird fiction. It's an intelligently written book." --Spooky Reads
"A gripping and well-written tale... Adams' characters are engaging, and his setting is colorful and evocative." --Nerd Caliber
"A must-read for fans of Sherlock Holmes." --2-Bit Geek
"Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God plays out its mystery with an intriguing action aspect, spurred onward with fusion of supernatural and weird fiction. It's an intelligently written book." --Spooky Reads
Product Description
A body is found crushed to death in the London snow. There are no footprints anywhere near. It is almost as if the man was killed by the air itself. This is the first in a series of attacks that sees a handful of London s most prominent occultists murdered. While pursuing the case, Holmes and Watson have to travel to Scotland to meet with the one person they have been told can help: Aleister Crowley.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Titan's series of books `The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' have been something of a mixed bag, going from pastiche, through retelling of old tales to the truly dire/ unreadable. Guy Adams' `Sherlock Holmes and the Breath of God' stands head and shoulders above 99% of the series so far (beaten only by David Stuart Davies' `The Veiled Detective'). It is both a good old fashioned Sherlock Holmes romp, with the occult and outré thrown in.
This is not, however, a deep novel - there are no profound depths to be plumbed here (and why would you want to, this is a romp of a novel, not high Victorian fiction). It is, rather, a good light and entertaining read, designed to divert and entertain rather than inform or edify. And yet there is much that is inexplicable, even for Holmes - very much temporal creature, for whom the numinous is beyond the scope of his detective abilities and therefore his understanding (even great detectives have their blind spots and whatever Holmes may be, he has never claimed to be infallible, even if he is, in Watson's view, insufferably right on most occasions).
Thankfully there are few Holmesian clichés in the text which is good (a reference to Watson's service revolver is all). As always one wonders how the vision of a constantly armed Watson would be met by our Victorian/ Edwardian ancestors? One can't help but feel that for many writers of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, that Britain has the same liberal attitude to members of the public wandering around with service revolvers as America does. There is much in our modern society that is similar to Holmes and Watson's time, including a war in Afghanistan, similarly one cannot help feel that the official attitude towards the deployment of fire arms by members of the public would be the same now as then.
This is not, however, a deep novel - there are no profound depths to be plumbed here (and why would you want to, this is a romp of a novel, not high Victorian fiction). It is, rather, a good light and entertaining read, designed to divert and entertain rather than inform or edify. And yet there is much that is inexplicable, even for Holmes - very much temporal creature, for whom the numinous is beyond the scope of his detective abilities and therefore his understanding (even great detectives have their blind spots and whatever Holmes may be, he has never claimed to be infallible, even if he is, in Watson's view, insufferably right on most occasions).
Thankfully there are few Holmesian clichés in the text which is good (a reference to Watson's service revolver is all). As always one wonders how the vision of a constantly armed Watson would be met by our Victorian/ Edwardian ancestors? One can't help but feel that for many writers of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, that Britain has the same liberal attitude to members of the public wandering around with service revolvers as America does. There is much in our modern society that is similar to Holmes and Watson's time, including a war in Afghanistan, similarly one cannot help feel that the official attitude towards the deployment of fire arms by members of the public would be the same now as then.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This is a romping tale of Sherlock Holmes investigating an occult mystery that threatens the life of Aleister Crowley. There's a lot of this kind of thing about currently, with the Kim Newman revival, but this is quality stuff. A good mystery, nice horror, good period feel, but what makes it special is the supporting cast. Coming to the aid of the party: Thomas Carnacki, John Silence and Julian Karswell (from 'Casting the Runes'). If the mention of those names makes your ears prick up, then you can be assured you'll enjoy this book.
I'd have liked it to be longer and I would definitely have liked more Carnacki, the author takes the rather basic character from the WH Hodgson stories and really gives him some welly and offbeat charm. It seemed to me a sequel would be perfectly possible...
I'd have liked it to be longer and I would definitely have liked more Carnacki, the author takes the rather basic character from the WH Hodgson stories and really gives him some welly and offbeat charm. It seemed to me a sequel would be perfectly possible...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read a good number of Holmes pastiches over the years and they are invariably disappointing. Authors find it hard to maintain the "voice" of Watson, cliches abound and the actions of Holmes are invariably overly dramatic in order to make an exciting romp. This is such a tale. It was unconvincing and jarring in a few places but saying that, not altogether unreadable. The plot is unbelievable and the climax is ridiculous. A bit of fun but not recommended for the purists or those seeking high standards in their Holmes pastiches!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Flawed Gem
As a person who has read and loved the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, and Algernon Blackwood, I looked forward to reading this book to see how... Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. Worthy
Pseudo-Sherlock
A not altogether convincing exercise is Holmes quasi-plagiarism. Mixes Sherlockian investigation with black magic. Does not quite come off.Not highly recommended!
Published 1 month ago by hypercritic
Brilliant
This is a brilliantly written storyline that didn't fail to grip. It's on eof those few works that is pretty much un-put-downable. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Booksmith
logic and reason versus the supernatural
`The Breath of God' finds Sherlock Holmes up against it again when a body is found crushed to death in the London snow with no footprints anywhere near it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Daniel Cann
Plot partly transparent, partly left hanging
One smaller annoyance was that the writing style was rather different from the original stories, with lots of different narrators. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dr. Egor Kraev
Sherlock Holmes meets Aleister Crowley and Thomas Carnacki
This novel is full of late Nineteenth Century practitioners of magic along with a number of events that seem to defy scientific explanation. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Philip K. Jones
Halitosis of pastiche
Dear goodness, if you like the multi layered in the know rapid hit of the modern tv 'Sherlock' plot a wide course away from this stewing of dullness. Read more
Published 4 months ago by XIII Warrior
A ripping yarn
"The Breath of God" by Guy Adams is on a higher level entirely than his disappointing book "The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes". Read more
Published 5 months ago by Roger Johnson
Sherlock vs the supernatural
The book starts with Hilary De Montfort, leaving his club after a lucky evening gambling, on to be seen a short while later, desperately running away from something only he can... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Marleen
Almost perfect
I liked this a lot. It's certainly one of the better recent additions to the Sherlock Holmes cannon. Loved the inclusion of Carnacki, Crowley & especially Julian Karswell. Read more
Published 6 months ago by David L. Brzeski
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
