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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780517203385
ISBN number: 0517203383
Label: Gramercy
Manufacturer: Gramercy
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: May 11, 1999
Publishing house: Gramercy
Release Date: May 11, 1999
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From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!
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"The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes" is one of the best volumes of Holmes pastiches by writers other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is primarily due to its highly accurate recapturing of the characterizations of Holmes and Watson and of Watson's narrative voice. Perhaps not unexpectedly, many pastiche writers are less successful than Conan Doyle's son Adrian in recreating these elements, and even the younger Conan Doyle slips up once or twice.
A couple of the stories co-written by John Dickson Carr feel slightly inauthentic. "The Wax Gamblers" is a dull, weak story which concludes with a sequence that attempts, not entirely successfully, to give a new dimension to Watson's character. "The Highgate Miracle", while enjoyable, is far more comedic than any of the elder Conan Doyle's sixty Holmes tales, resorting to the Dickensian technique of using humorous names such as "Cabpleasure".
Halfway through the writing and serialization of the "Exploits", Carr was briefly taken ill, causing Adrian Conan Doyle to write the final six stories by himself. These tales are more uniformly faithful to his father's style than the very first six. Unfortunately, the plot of every one of them, to a greater or lesser extent, is painfully similar to that of one or more of the original Holmes stories by the author's father. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself sometimes recycled plots -- compare "The Red-Headed League", "The Stockbroker's Clerk", and "The Three Garridebs", for example -- but never in six consecutive stories.
The most spectacular example of this borrowing is "The Deptford Horror", which is a patently obvious reworking of what may well be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's single most famous and highly-regarded Sherlock Holmes short story. And yet "The Deptford Horror" is also one of my two favorite Holmes stories by writers other than the elder Conan Doyle. Why? Perhaps I find "The Deptford Horror" even more viscerally frightening than its source text. Or perhaps I'm swayed by the fleeting and yet powerful moment at the story's climax that acknowledges the strength and profundity of Holmes and Watson's friendship.
Skip the final two-and-a-half pages of the final story, "The Red Widow". Here Adrian Conan Doyle indulges in sentimentality utterly foreign to the style of his father's Holmes narratives. This book's best tribute to its two main characters comes, not in the twee excesses of its final paragraphs, but as they face an unimaginable horror together in an upstairs bedroom of a rundown house in Deptford.
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I just got this book recently and I love it. It has the Conan Doyle flavor which I really like. I would highly recommend this book.
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The stories in the Exploits of Sherlock Holmes carries on the great tradition of Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Conan Doyle. The stories are written by Adrain Conay Doyle and John Dickson Carr with great accuracy for the Victorian period of time. And the stories captures the relaionship between Holmes and Dr. Watson. The addition of great plot twists to the stories makes this book a must have addition to the Sherlock Holmes' fan library.
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Among these pastiches, several would have found a place in the actual canon, because of their accurate settings-language-plot and structure. Only if there were more..!
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There is a long and honoured tradition among mystery writers and fans of the Sherlock Holmes tales of writing one's own mystery. This can take one of several starting points - to take a detail in the canonical stories and develop it more fully (there are a lot of dangling pieces in there), to take the characters of Holmes and Watson (and perhaps others) and involve them in completely new fictional scenarios, or involve the characters in actual historical events. Adrian Conan Doyle, youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, teamed with veteran mystery writer John Dickson Carr to produce a series of short stories developing themes that came out of the official canon of 56 short stories and four novels.
The background information tells us that these stories were written at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own desk, so there is a sense of tactile succession from the official stories to these extra-canonical offerings. Well written, they sometimes lack the same smooth character of the better of the official stories (but then again, some of the official stories vary from the high standard of the better of them to a great degree).
This collection of a dozen stories picks up on details out of 'The Speckled Band', 'Silver Blaze', and many others. One of the glories of the Holmes canon is the in the details - those who love the stories spend hours reading and re-reading to catch new ideas and insights, and will likely be thrilled with the way in which Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr have worked in many pieces here.
Half the stories were written by Adrian Conan Doyle himself; the other half were written as a collaboration. I think this is an excellent volume as an extra-canonical addition to the stories. It maintains in good faith the same character of Holmes, Watson, Lestrade and others from the canon; while putting them in new situations, it does not create new personalities or identities or quirks about them, which sometimes prove distracting in some offerings.
The typical fan of Holmes will be pleased, and those new to Holmes will not be misled, and likely be inspired to further reading.
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