The Reification of Hans Gerber

An enjoyable trip back into my reading youth!!......more

Mann is more well known (in certain niche literary circles) for his Newbury and Hobbes steampunk series, is a wonderfully talented writer who has a way with words that only British authors seem to be able to pull off. In my mind there are two ways to write a Sherlock Holmes pastiche; you either do yo......more

Nicely written in Arthur Conan Doyle's style, this entry by George Mann does a decent job with the standard Holmes mystery, but the steampunk stuff just seems thrown in on the side. Less a mash-up than two stories allowed to coexist in the same book.......more

*Special Content only on my blog, Strange and Random Happenstance, during Sherlocked. (October - December 2015) Watson has left his wife in the capable hands of her mother and has returned to 221B Baker Street. Mrs. Hudson had warned him that Sherlock was in quite a state, which often happens when he......more

Iv'e read The will of the dead, belonging to a series of bookmade around Sherlock Holmes. I had the book suggested to me by my brother, so thats why I chose it. I didn't quite know what to expect from the book, but it certainly didn't meet my expectations. Although I thought the book would be easy to r......more