My Dear Watson, Margaret Park Bridges
My Dear Watson, Margaret Park Bridges
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My Dear Watson

Author: Margaret Park Bridges

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2012


Synopsis

The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light: was he actually a woman? At last the master-or rather, mistress-of disguise puts pen to paper to reveal this decades-long deception and, in so doing, discovers another fact she kept secret even from herself. The complex mind of the brilliant consulting detective is finally opened to the public in the chronicle of a new case never recorded by Dr. Watson-a case featuring Constance Moriarty, the beguiling daughter of Holmes' infamous nemesis. This prizewinning tale puts a fascinating spin on one of the most legendary characters in all of literature. "Margaret Park Bridges takes an even more revisionist approach in her novel My Dear Watson. The detective's secret is disclosed at the very start of the book, and it'll do no harm to reveal it here: Sherlock Holmes was a woman. It's not a new idea but it's handled here with great skill and confidence, and it has a purpose, to account for much of Holmes' personality as described by Dr. Watson."-The Sherlock Holmes Society

About Margaret Park Bridges

Margaret Park Bridges was born in New York City and raised in Portland, Oregon. After moving to Massachusetts, she won the Special Award for Excellence in Japan’s Suntory Mystery Fiction Competition for My Dear Watson—written in Japanese. Since then, she has written and published several successful children’s picture books in English. She has received awards for her poetry, and one short story she published was made into a film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She works in Boston and lives in Littleton, Massachusetts, with her haiku poet husband, her two talented daughters, and her adorable pug.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy H.

My Dear Watson proposes -- and this is no spoiler, as the reader knows this from the first page -- that Sherlock Holmes is a woman who has chosen to live in disguise as a man. The premise is intriguing, and I'd be interested to see it explored in another work. The novel gains points with me for orig......more

Goodreads review by Heather

I wasn't sure I was going to be able to buy into the premise of this book, but I loved the true characterization and the plot twists.......more

Goodreads review by Tammy

A very fun read I had a lot of fun reading this and went through it all in one go. An adventurous ride fir the post-modern Holmes fan.......more