The Last Act

Sherlock Holmes detractors have occasionally criticised the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, apparently thinking that the solutions were sometimes easy enough that they hardly required a genius like Holmes to solve them. I imagine the problem is one of over-familiarity with the original stories,......more

A collection of 20 new short stories featuring Holmes and Watson. Each are well written and would fit well into the Holmes canon and would also make good source material for television adaptations. At 400 pages and with small print it did take me longer to read than I was expecting.......more

This collection is described by the editor as “… a new batch of twenty adventures … to fascinate and entertain you.” The recent appearances of several assemblages of Sherlockian tales constructed around one theme or another have tended to jade the palates of Sherlockians for specialized sorts of mys......more

An entertaining pot-pourri of modern Sherlock Holmes stories. As might be expected with a collection of this sort, the quality is variable, but in only a couple of the stories did I feel that it was really below par. There are also some crackers - June Thomson's The Case of the Gufstasson Stone is a......more