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Half a century after his final bow, Sherlock Holmes remains the best-known character in English fiction. With the possible exception of Hamlet and Don Quixote, he may be the most recognizable creation in all literature. The man in the deerstalker cap is the subject of a full-length biography...
Now Novelist Nicholas Meyer (The Love Story Story, Target Practice) has seen fit to bring back Holmes himself in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, coyly subtitled, "Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D." The publisher thought enough of the book's potential popularity to order...
To Ellery Queen, it is the very inimitability of the master-hardly a Holmesian exists who has not mentally attempted to compose a further adventure of the world's first consulting detective. To Critic Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London...
Rudimentary, says Meyer. Holmes was mainlining cocaine (cf. The Sign of the Four); Freud, at the same period, had effected some dramatic drug cures. What could be more logical than a meeting of the two most original minds of the Victorian epoch? The notion is at once revolutionary and traditional...
No Choice. Careering about Vienna, Holmes and his cadre become involved with that cornerstone of Victoriana, the Amnesiac Lady in Distress, played by the breathtaking Norma Osborne Slater. When she is kidnaped by Warmonger Baron Von Leinsdorf-who plans to blow up Europe-Holmes has no choice. With his faithful...