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...Crimson backs failed to clear out, the ball bounded across the box to the weak side, where freshman Jon Mycroft collected it and beat Crimson goalie Jordan Dupuis in the far corner...
...without conscience as she. A coven of rich, carnivorous old ladies is both scammed upon and scamming, but can its doddering members really have anything to do with a series of ferocious murders? How much should Mallory trust the male character who seems to have been modeled on Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's smarter brother? O'Connell's fairy tale is wild-eyed nonsense and good...
...Wilder's invention, Sigi should not be confused with Sherlock's older brother Mycroft, who was a lazy mathematical genius...
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 Solution, they have flowered into captivating themes...
...drily. "Personally, I admire parody - when it pinks the host, not the parasite. Wilder never understood his subjects well enough to satirize us. He is even off in his details - my brother, for instance, is played by the lean Christopher Lee. As you have noted in The Greek Interpreter, Mycroft is 'absolutely corpulent.' The entire effort may, I think, be ascribed to an insufficiency of imagination, not unlike Sir Henry Baskerville...