Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312908430
ISBN number: 0312908431
Label: St Martins Mass Market Paper
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
Printing Date: 1987-10
Publishing house: St Martins Mass Market Paper
Sale Popularity Level: 1657012
Studio: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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L. B. Greenwood is a teacher who lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her book uses the famous fictional characters of Arthur Conan Doyle (the copyright expired in the 1970s), but the style is different from the original stories. This story features Dr. John Watson as the main character. AC Doyle was a doctor in real life, the British films of the late 1930s used an actor who resembled ACD. There is no chapter numbers or headings.
Student John Watson tells of his experiences with Alexander Raleigh, a poor student who loves literature but must learn to earn a living. Raleigh has a "legacy", a letter written in Elizabethan times that is obscure and a mystery. Years later Watson decides to renew his friendship with Aleck and his wife Winnifred. Aleck is writing a new edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's poem and hopes to use the "legacy" to help sell the book. The story continues, with facts being noted that seem to have no connection. [The author uses the work `kerosene' (p.94), the British say `paraffin'.] The pace picks up when Mrs. Raleigh is attacked in a narrow alley. The return of Holmes and Watson from Devon finds news of a murder at Nightsead. [When Holmes and Watson journey to probable danger at Nightsead to solve a murder neither carry a pistol. Would Doyle have used the phrase "however mistakenly" (p.157)?] They find an amazing buried object, and a solution to the crimes and the legacy letter.
This book is longer than most of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The need for a long explanation to tie up the loose ends implies an overly complicated plot. Some of the words seem anachronistic "near emaciation" (p.180).
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