Sherlock Holmes, The Russian Connection: The Russian Connection and Other New Adventures

BY REBEL WITH OUT A COATUNFORTUNATELY this book is a waste of money. There are better pastiches about Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson available, better written, with better plots. The author has written this book about a detective and his friend, and named them Sherlock and Watson. The stories are not very good and unfortunately the characters are nothing like their name sakes. Simply calling two characters, Holmes and Watson is not enough. The characters do not speak or act like their name sakes and the stories are disjointed and some just end in a way that makes little sense. Sherlock Holmes just doesn't ring true and the girl who consults him about her fellow cyclists death speaks in a contrived manner that a sixth former might think was appropriate for an Edwardian young lady, but is just a terrible parody, it's like assuming that all men in the 30s would have spoken like Bertie Wooster!!. As for the poisoned chocolates delivered by a husky. N M SCOTT should 're-read the original stories before putting pen to paper again, or fingers to laptop.

From N M Scott, author of two previous volumes of short stories, comes Sherlock Holmes: The Russian Connection and other new adventures, containing ten exploits that take Holmes and Watson to rural Sussex, Kew Gardens, the Yorkshire Dales, Bethnal Green, and Moscow. The cases involve espionage, blackmail, abduction and murder - and there's more than one Russian connection. The plotting is clever, the period setting faithful, and the style agreeable. Mr Scott writes well, and is well served by his publishers. The book is ideal for those who regret that there are only sixty canonical cases.