Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Ingeniously contrived and shrewdly executed by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction today—Anne Perry, Loren Estleman, Gillian Linscott, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, Stuart Kaminsky, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Howard Engel, Carolyn Wheat, and L. B. Greenwood—the eleven stories in...
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Ingeniously contrived and shrewdly executed by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction today—Anne Perry, Loren Estleman, Gillian Linscott, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, Stuart Kaminsky, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Howard Engel, Carolyn Wheat, and L. B. Greenwood—the eleven stories in this premier volume celebrate the keen mind and singular manners of the Great Detective. "This collection is of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf."—Minneapolis Star Tribune "A worthier gift for any mystery aficionado cannot be imagined."—Chicago Sun-Times "Uniformly faithful to the spirit of Doyle's creation."—Publisher's Weekly
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786710744 (0786710748)
Publish date: September 17th 2002
Publisher: Running Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
If this had just been a collection of short mysteries, I would have rated it 3 1/2 or 4 stars. As a collection of Sherlock pastiches, I'd rate it 3 stars. This was kind of a disappointment as Sherlock story collections go. None of the authors seemed to quite capture Holmes or Watson. The story with ...