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Article: Treats for Sherlockians
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 9, 2001
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An anthology of new Sherlock Holmes pastiches arrives in time for
Christmas, and a worthier gift for any mystery aficionado cannot be
imagined.
Murder in Baker Street (Carroll & Graf, $25) brings together 11
top contemporary mystery writers to embroil Holmes and Dr. John H.
Watson in new intrigues. most refreshingly free of the formulaic
structure that constrained all but a few of the 60 adventures in the
Arthur Conan Doyle canon.
Carolyn Wheat's "The Remarkable Worm" lets us share Holmes'
ruffled dignity posing for a waxwork replica in Madam Tussaud's
museum. Anne Perry's "The Bloodless Sock" puts a new twist on the
Doyle device of deducting from the absence of the expected, rather
than tbe ...