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The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson - Community Reviews back

by Nicholas Meyer
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Diocletian
Diocletian rated it 11 years ago
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 11 years ago
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...
What I'm reading
What I'm reading rated it 13 years ago
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 13 years ago
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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