Nicholas Meyer
Birth date: December 24, 1945
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The first half is promising. Unfortunately the promise is never fulfilled. We get a mystery of a dubious quality, almost no resolution to that either, and in the last 10 pages the author suddenly remembers that he had set up a fertile ground for psychoanalysis in the beginning and tries to wrap it u...
Ah, Sherlock Holmes non-canonical fiction. There is a lot of it out there. I have wanted to try reading some eventually, and have finally gotten to doing so with this book. What I really wanted to read was The Seven-Percent Solution, but sadly, my library does not carry it. So, I checked out this bo...
Ah, Sherlock Holmes non-canonical fiction. There is a lot of it out there. I have wanted to try reading some eventually, and have finally gotten to doing so with this book. What I really wanted to read was The Seven-Percent Solution, but sadly, my library does not carry it. So, I checked out this bo...
One of the things I enjoy about the original Holmes-stories is that they're often so small-scale. Holmes only has to deal with a handful of murderers and in many cases there wasn't even an actual crime comitted. So pastiches in which the fate of the world/Europe/England depend on Holmes abilities......
This one is better than the Freud book. Meyer is using Leroux's Phantom with care and imagination. Still, it's professional fanfic, this time of the cross-over type. The three stars is probably because Meyer channels Holmes as a narrator better than Watson. The good doctor is barely in this novel. T...
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