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The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D. - Nicholas Meyer
The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D.
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Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes's biographer and friend, reveals hitherto unknown adventures of the Great Detective—while he was employed, incognito, as a violinist in the Paris Opera.As the detective matches wits... show more
Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes's biographer and friend, reveals hitherto unknown adventures of the Great Detective—while he was employed, incognito, as a violinist in the Paris Opera.As the detective matches wits with a musical maniac—the Phantom of the Opera—in a death struggle for the body and soul of Christine Daae, the miraculous soprano for whom the Ghost serves as a mesmeric "Canary Trainer," we are treated to an adventure unlike any other in the Holmes archive.Nicholas Meyer also "edited" the two-million-copy bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The West End Horror, both of which are available in paperback from Norton. Meyer is a novelist, screenwriter, and director as well as a Holmes scholar.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780393312416 (0393312410)
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches (#3)
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Diocletian
Diocletian rated it
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...
Diocletian
Diocletian rated it
3.0 A Slight Disappointment
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...
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What I'm reading rated it
3.0 The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson
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...
beishir
beishir rated it
2.0 The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson
Sherlock Holmes meets The Phantom of the Opera, written to partially fill the gap between 1891 and 1894 after Holmes' fall at Reichenbach and before his return in "The Adventure of the Empty House".The novel has a very strange and disappointing ending.Not one of Meyer's better works.
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