If you are a Sherlock fan. like me, chances are you were watching the new episode yesterday, like me. Don't get me started on how rude it is to only provide one episode after two years of waiting (or how the series is dwelling a lot on how awesome it is). Luckily for us, there are other Sherlock Holmes stories to keep the waiting bearable.

I've not been a fan of all the modern Sherlock Holmes stories, but when I was reading The House of Silk I was surprised by how well it captured the characters and how much I liked the writing. This is a (too) short story intended as a promotion. And even though it was too short to give the story anything substantial going on and to be really interesting, it did remind me of how much I liked The House of Silk and that I should certainly read Moriarty soon.

I'd say, mission accomplished. The case is closed.

How to sell a book: You write a short story, add the first chapter of your book after the short story then sell it cheap. voilà!

But I have learned the lesson, I seldom read the first chapter...so Mr Horowitz I will not buy your book (until the price is right)...

The short story was ok, of course too short to be really interesting. But it was good written, not terrible surprising, but hello, it was supershort, not many things can happen on so few pages...