Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312855628
ISBN number: 0312855621
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Page Count: 285
Printing Date: 1994-06
Publishing house: Tor Books
Sale Popularity Level: 753443
Studio: Tor Books
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Vladimir Kulakov returns from his hanging with a sore neck and an axe to grind, and when Sherlock Holmes vanishes, Dr. Watson suspects a connection and summons Holmes's cousin, the vampire Prince Dracula, to help.
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Fred Saberhagen is a master storyteller. His Dracula series is as impressive as his Berserker and Swords series. Definitely a must-read....but so are all Fred's books.
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Not the greatest book in the series. Liked later ones much better.
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Not only do Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and Rasputin manage to show up in the same novel, but Saberhagen unconvincingly proposes that Holmes and Dracula are cousins. The novel is not tightly constructed enough in some respects for my tastes, and in other places details I would like to have known more about are not explored. The story is told from the perspective of both Dr. Watson and Dracula and switches back and forth. Also, it is easy to guess what happened in the case of the drowned girl (the 'mystery' part of the novel). It shouldn't require the legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes to figure it out.
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I really hate to say this, because I've never given anyone less than four stars, but I wasn't really impressed with this book. I found it a bit farfetched that Dracula was related to Holmes, and it added many complicating elements to the story. But overall, it was a decent book, and certainly not the worst I've ever read. I suppose if you're really into vampires and such like that you might be interested, but I don't believe in the supernatural (unless you count God) and I don't think that Holmes would either.
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I bought this book because I was blown away by his alternative telling of 'Frankenstein' (which appears, tragically, to be out of print.) It didn't live up to my very first taste of Saberhagen, and so disappointed me.... but as a representative of the vampire and Holmesian genres, it's an original entry and a pleasant light read.
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