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This collection of Sherlock pastiches didn’t meet my, admittedly high, expectations. The author writes well, all the pieces are there, but the puzzle’s missing some je ne sais quoi. Based on the title and the author’s other work, I expected her to lean more into horror but that wasn’t the case. Sadly, the mystery element wasn’t very strong either. But one story, about what really happened in Dartmoor, was fun. Unfortunately, I was expecting fun, spooky, suspenseful Sherlockiana and instead I mos...
This is an excellent collection of well researched pastiches that echo the style and flavor of Conan Doyle's canon. "The Things That Shall Come Upon Them" by Barbara Roden is a three-way multiverse crossover, with Holmes and Watson meeting up with literary character/paranormal investigator Flaxman Low to investigate the home of Julian Karswell from M.R. James's "Casting the Runes." It's thoroughly enjoyable to see the two detectives work together despite their very different approaches. It's a f...
RecommendedThese stories nicely recapture the Holmes and Watson of Doyle. I found the story Of the Thames Horror the most entertaining of the three. A nice diversion for a few hours on a rainy night.
In this e-book (the first such venture from Calabash Press), Barbara Roden has presented 4 Sherlockian pastiches, written over a long period. Chronologically arranged, the stories are: -1) "The Adventure of the Suspect Servant": first published in the The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and written in 1997, this is the story that scrupulously adheres to the tone of the Canon, with a more gentle mystery concerning a family where certain items have been apparently stolen and the mai...
