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Singular capital wonderfully enjoyable this is the biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories published since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen nearly 200000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime Almost all the stories are specially written for the collection and the cases are presented in the order in which Holmes solved them The result is a life of Sherlock Holmes with a continuous narrative alongside the stories which identities the gaps in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in their correct sequence plus there is an invaluable complete Holmes chronology back cover The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
To think it s 21 ys since I read this collection of Holmes stories it is great SS collection of Holmes Paperback Great one Paperback They don t make them any This is the sentiment that assaults one after completing a book like this First published in 1997 as The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures this massive collection of pastiches cover the entire gamut of post Doyle Sherlockiana The contents of this book along with my thoughts regarding them are as under Foreword by Richard Lancelyn Green Acknowledgements Introduction The Life and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Mike AshleyPart I Early Years1 The Bothersome Business of Dutch Nativity by Derek Wilson very good. Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 2 The Affray at the Kildare Street Club by Peter Tremayne I am sick of Mr Tremayne and his Irish connection stories in every collection of pastiches and sincerely hope that editors would stop printing his Irish stories just for a change. The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle store 6 The Adventure of the Silver Buckle by Denis O Smith Holmes in Scotland in a very good adventure of Mr Smith s works should now be available with the advent of e books in a big way. Kindle The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures 6 The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter by Basil Copper even in a Sherlock Holmes adventure the master of gothic horror manages to unnerve us in a few paragraphs despite the mystery being too simple to solve. The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures Science Fiction fantasypros B Greenwood a simplistic feel good kind of a story that tries to conclude the efforts begun in His Last Bow Appendix I A Complete Chronology of Sherlock Holmes s cases Appendix II The Tales of Sherlock Holmes The ContributorsOverall a very good collection of pastiches that would appeal to all lovers of Sherlockiana Recommended Paperback I had hoped that a collection of than 20 stories written by authors who try to stay true to ACD would be fun Unfortunately I found myself bored annoyed most of the time It isn t a must for me that an author stays true to ACD However if this is the goal I expect them to do it right Sadly every story lacked something Some fell short in the writing style others in the behaviour of Holmes and Watson Most were lacking in the plots that were either too easy or too hard to guess but mostly just weren t the kind of case that ACD would write down The only story that came close for me was The Case of the Incumbent Invalid which is precisely the sort of odd trivial matter that Holmes would investigate. Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made I would recommend rereading the original stories instead Paperback Dozens of Sherlock Holmes short stories written a century after Conan Doyle A very few come close to the old magic but most miss it by a little and often a lot The problem is finding the good stories amidst the drudge since they do not come with warning labels Paperback
Michael Raymond Donald Ashley is the author and editor of over sixty books that in total have sold over a million copies worldwide He lives in Chatham Kent.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle store Umm Yes As a BIG fan of Sherlock Holmes I was VERY excited when I encountered this book For the most part this anthology lived up to my expectations The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures contains short stories by modern writers some brand new straight from the authors minds some based on historical events and people and some my favorites based on those teasers Watson gives in passing such as the repulsive story of the red leech and the terrible death of Crosby the banker.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle store The famous Smith Mortimer succession case and the tracking and arrest of Huret the Boulevard assassin taken from The Adventure of the Golden Pince Nez Who can resist reading up possible cases to go with those hints Like the original stories by Doyle the anthology has its high and low points stories that keep you on the edge of your seat and stories that seem slightly anti climactic Overall the cases are believable and the voice and characterization quite true to Doyle s work And then there s the story featuring H.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures nonfiction writing G Wells as a character That one really threw me for a loop The laws of physics go out the window for one and the reader is merrily led into a laboratory straight out of Wells s imagination Now don t get me wrong I m a fan of SF and enjoy reading Wells and Asimov and a few other SF writers But I m not sure this anthology was the place for that story I know I know Get over hon no one cares it was a great story and an excellent anthology anyway When you re editing then you can reject stories to your heart s content That aside it was a great read and I really enjoyed it The contributions were well written well imagined and entertaining Paperback This collection of short stories range in quality from bad to awful to a piece of garbage that Arthur Conan Doyle never would have written I too desire Sherlock Holmes adventures but these are not the stories you re looking for Paperback A collection of absolute rubbish.
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 26 short stories all of which are unreadable trash and written by amateurish authors Some of the stories have a hint of GK Chesterton s style so that should be sufficient to put the reader off The worst of all the terrible stories has to be The Adventure of the Bulgarian Diplomat There are no words to describe how blundering opaque and senseless this story is but the others aren t far behind it.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures nonfiction definition And is the editor Mike Ashley the previous owner of Newcastle Football club Paperback This was an airport 1 for 2 buy but once I started it was hard to make myself hold to my 1 story before bed plan The stories were obviously of varying quality but enough of them managed to really capture the spirit of Conan Doyle s most famous creation to make me instantly pick up the original stories once I finished this Paperback The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures is an anthology of new stories featuring the beloved duo of Holmes and Watson contributed by respected authors such as Michael Moorcock and Peter Tremayne Most of them were specifically written for this collection and many expand on references made by Watson in the Canon there are two stories based on his reference to the repulsive story of the red leech Ranging from Holmes college days The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity to his and Watson s part in the end of WWI The Last Battle the twenty six stories are told in chronological order linked by brief notes from the editor referring to the canonical adventures that took place at the same time and relating the circumstances in which the new stories were discovered As with any anthology some of the stories are better than others but many of them did a creditable job at capturing the spirit of the originals Honorable mention in my opinion at least goes to the first story The Bothersome Business of the Dutch NativityThe Case of the Sporting Squire and The Mystery of the Addleton Curse Paperback.:
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle direct Part II The 1880 s1 The Case of the Incumbent Invalid by Claire Griffen very good:
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 2 The Adventure of Vittoria the Circus Belle by Edward D Hoch not upto the standards of Mr Hoch I must state,
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures epubs 3 The Darlington Substitution Scandal by David Stuart Davies very good,
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures Science Fiction fantasy football 4 The Adventure of the Suspect Servant by Barbara Roden good but Ms Roden s subsequent efforts are vastly superior to this pastiche:
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures nonfiction articles 5 The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society by John Betancourt very good and quite sensational.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle store 8 The Vanishing of the Atkinsons by Eric Brown Holmes in Ceylon present Sri Lanka in another sensational case which is good to read.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle direct Part III The 1890 s1 The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger by Michael Moorcock good enjoyable story:
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures kindle direct 2 The Mystery of the Addleton Curse by Barrie Roberts very good,
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures nonfiction articles 3 The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman by Robert Weinberg Lois H Gresh a sensational case but too pulpy to be true of Holmes,
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 4 The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor by Stephen Baxter a grave science fiction oriented adventure that brings Holmes in close contact with H.
EPub The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 5 The Adventure of the Touch of God by Peter Crowther a very good story of real life psychological horror.
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures Science Fiction fantasy football 8 The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech by David Langford a very good mystery that makers clever usage of physics in its d nouement.
PDF The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures unlimited 9 The Adventure of the Grace Chalice by Roger Johnson good straight forward mystery:
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures nonfiction writing 10 The Adventure of the Faithful Retainer by Amy Myers sensational good read,
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made Part IV The Final Years1 The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer by martin Edwards a very good story,
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures pdf editor 2 The Legacy of Rachel Howells by Michael Doyle a story that defeats itself in trying to be too clever:
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 3 The Adventure of the Bulgarian Diplomat by Zakaria Erzinclioglu good but too sensational and too political something that Sir Arthur would have avoided like plague.
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made Gwynplaine MacIntyre finally a solution to the problem of Mr James Philli who had vanished from the earth without leaving any trace that too in New York,
Book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures made 30 for the book in an Oxfam shop and I m gutted that I could have got a big bag of chips for that money.7 The Case of the Sporting Squire by Guy N Smith good.9 The Adventure of the Fallen Star by Simon Clark good.G Wells Very good.7 The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler by H.R.F Keating a rare failure of Holmes chronicled rather truthfully.4 The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex by F.5 The Case of the Last Battle by L.I paid 1