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The story is masterful. It is 1891 and Holmes's fondness for cocaine is now an addiction. He has acquired a phantom: Professor Moriarty, a shuffling grammar-school teacher who becomes "the Napoleon of crime" when the sleuth is in a narcotic state. Shocked but dutiful, Watson lures Holmes to...
Freud cures Holmes and it is not long before they discover an adventure to involve both their powers. A wronged and beautiful American innocent leads them quickly to a scarred and diabolic German. Holmes realizes that the fate of Europe hangs in the balance, as the evil man is scheming...
WHOEVER OUR AUTHOR is--the aging Watson or the youthful Meyer--he has created this tale out of the stuff of the traditional Holmes canon in a brilliant and startling fashion. The Reichenbach Falls death-struggle of the Final Problem has been elevated here to a hellish showdown above a...
Unfortunately, that is not all the author dragged out of the originals. Our narrator is a pedant, and he felt obliged to introduce within his meager 250 pages a galaxy of references to earlier adventures, to all of Holmes traits and methods, and to some of the fascinating characters and...
When the chronicler decides to develop these allusions to the canon into important plot devices, they are terrific. In the original, neither Holmes's cocaine consumption nor the intelligence of Mycroft Holmes was a significant subject, although both matters have since tantalized all inquisitive Sherlockians. In The Seven-Per-Cent...