sherlock holmes and the shadwell shadows

This is the fourth in the author’s Moriarty series, which Titan Books is republishing. Controversially the novel suggests Holmes’ battle with Moriarty was a delusion caused by the stimulant and that his anti-social side can be traced back to his parents. Holmes has his cocaine addiction successfully treated by Sigmund Freud – a common feature of pastiches is to have Holmes intrude on real people and events or vice versa – and then acts to prevent a war in Europe. The first of three pastiches from this screenwriter was also the most commercially and critically successful, becoming a bestseller and a hit movie. The Seven-Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer

Her portrayal of Holmes is most respectful of the original. The author has used the series to examine important historical issues such as women’s rights and social justice in an intelligent way. Mary Russell is a teenage girl whose keen intellect is a match for Holmes and reinvigorates his interest in detection. This is the first in the Mary Russell series, now up to 13 books, all of them set during the time of Holmes’ retirement to the Sussex Downs. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R King We cannot claim to have read them all – not even the good folks at CrimeFictionLover are that dedicated – but here is our selection of some of the best out there. However, there are also some fantastic reads which, though not written by Arthur Conan Doyle, are well worth your while if you’re a Sherlock Holmes devotee. Yes, there are aliens, vampires and zombies in certain Sherlock Holmes stories out there. Some stick to the canon and attempt to nestle their works in between Conan Doyle’s output, and others try more adventurous approaches to the character. The character is out of copyright so any writer can pick up where Conan Doyle left off – and thousands do. Amazon UK lists over 7,000 Holmes-inspired paperbacks. If you love Sherlock Holmes and want more, however, there is PLENTY to choose from. Conan Doyle himself picked 12 favourite stories for the Strand Magazine in 1927, including The Red-Headed League, The Five Orange Pips, and A Scandal in Bohemia. My choices would be The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the short story The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter. There are few enough stories for you to easily pick your favourites. There is enough material there to give people hundreds of hours of enjoyment – indeed they have been doing so for more than a century, and will most certainly continue to do so well into the future. The Sherlock Holmes canon – those stories that were written by Arthur Conan Doyle himself – is composed of 56 short stories and four novels.

Sherlock holmes and the shadwell shadows