Tag Archives: Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet Women – Sherry Thomas

Posted on April 14, 2017 by stewartry

Sherlock Holmes is kind of like a chocolate chip cookie. There’s a basic recipe which has been around forever and which everyone loves. (Well, I don’t love the original, but work with me here.) And people can never, ever resist … Continue reading →

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes – read by Simon Vance

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stewartry

As it turns out, I don’t like Sherlock Holmes very much. The idea? Some of the writing? The kernel of the character and Watson and 221B and Mrs. Hudson and so on? Absolutely. Holmes himself and his mysteries? Oh, God. … Continue reading →

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Garment of Shadows – Laurie R. King

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stewartry

Bless Netgalley’s buttons, persistence paid off and I finally got approved. If only it hadn’t taken me so long to get this review written … par for the course, lately. The story is well set up, with an economy and … Continue reading →

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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes – James O’Brien

Posted on October 2, 2012 by stewartry

  When I think of Holmes, I think of a scientific method of deduction. I think of a human version of a CSI lab before there were CSI labs, able to observe and interpret the smallest grains or threads of … Continue reading →

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Dust and Shadow – Lyndsay Faye, Simon Vance

Posted on July 27, 2012 by stewartry

  It is inevitable that writers feel a deep-seated urge to pit Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. The murders happened in the midst of Holmes’s career; his contemporary readership must have wished he could step out of the pages … Continue reading →

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The Game – Laurie R. King

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stewartry

Again, a brilliant idea, beautifully executed. To repeat myself yet again, I am generally disapproving when a writer plucks up another writer’s characters and makes use of them. But that’s largely because it’s usually done so horribly badly, and is … Continue reading →

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Justice Hall – Laurie R. King

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stewartry

Beautiful. Just beautiful. In the combined desire to reread the Holmes/Russell series and still hurry to get to Pirate King, I skipped two books: Letter of Mary I did not have, and O Jerusalem was a departure of setting and … Continue reading →

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The Moor – Laurie R. King

Posted on February 8, 2012 by stewartry

I would have loved to have reread The Hound of the Baskervilles before this, but I was in a hurry to get to the ARC of Pirate King that was waiting. Next time – because these are definitely books I … Continue reading →

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A Monstrous Regiment of Women – Laurie R. King

Posted on February 8, 2012 by stewartry

A Monstrous Regiment of Women isn’t my favorite of the Holmes/Russell novels, but that’s a little like saying dark isn’t my favorite type of chocolate. It’s still chocolate, and therefore by definition far better than many another thing. Mary Russell … Continue reading →

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The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King

Posted on November 7, 2011 by stewartry

This is one of those ideas that Should Not Work. It should foment outrage in the heart of even the mildest Sherlockophile that Laurie R. King should choose to bring a retired Sherlock Holmes together with a young woman, even … Continue reading →

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