The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson
While employed as a violinist by the Paris Opera in 1891, Sherlock Holmes discovers many surprises: the reappearance of his great love and a series of bizarre accidents allegedly arranged by the "Opera Ghost", an opponent more than equal to Holmes in cunning.
While employed as a violinist by the Paris Opera in 1891, Sherlock Holmes discovers many surprises: the reappearance of his great love and a series of bizarre accidents allegedly arranged by the "Opera Ghost", an opponent more than equal to Holmes in cunning.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393036084 (0393036081)
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches (#3)
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...
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...
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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