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The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Features
Hardcover:
320 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x 9.78 x 6.50
Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (September 2, 2003)
ISBN:
1400060656
From the Back Cover
“I’ve had a wonderfully entertaining time following Sherlock Holmes’s astonishing adventures in the Orient. Somehow, Ted Riccardi has captured the precise cadence and style of Dr. Watson’s accounts of his famous friend’s cases. So, almost without noticing the long gap from Doyle’s time to our own, one happily resumes one’s delight in these newly discovered events—as exotic as their settings—in Holmes’s life during the lost years after...  read more
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes is dead—or so most of the world thinks. His fatal plunge over the Reichenbach Falls as he struggled with his archenemy, Moriarty, has been widely reported.
But Holmes has escaped and is alive.
In his immediate circle, only Holmes’s brother, the lethargic genius Mycroft, knows of his survival. Even Dr. Watson thinks that the great detective is dead. Among his enemies, Sebastian Moran, Moriarty’s chief henchman, knows of Holmes’s probable escape and waits for their inevitable meeting.
From 1891 to 1894, Holmes wanders through Asia. He is alone, without Watson, without Scotland Yard, armed only with his physical strength and endur-ance and his revered cold logic and rationality.
The adventures recounted in The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes range from Lhasa to Katmandu, from the East Indies to the deserts of Rajasthan. In Tibet and throughout the Orient, Holmes is caught up in the diplomatic machinations of British imperialism that Rudyard Kipling dubbed “the Great Game.” He confronts the tsarist agent Dorjiloff, the great art thief Anton Furer, and the mysterious Captain Fantôme. And here, written in Holmes’s own words, is the account of “The Giant Rat of Sumatra,” for which until now he so famously thought the world unprepared.
For Holmes’s fans throughout the world, the stories in The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes fill in an enigmatic gap, the cause of so much speculation in the great detective’s career.
Reader Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
really very good, September 25, 2003
Reviewer:
A reader
from Dover, England
Having adored the original stories, I consume Holmes pastiches and am always on the look-out for one that meets my high expectations. A good pastiche has to feel like Conan Doyle wrote it. Many fail because they don't capture the essence of Holmes. Others fail because they diverge so far from any situation Conan Doyle could have contemplated that they feel like they're breaking the rules. This set of nine stories gets Holmes just right -- brilliant, arrogant, and surprising. And the stories dovetail, so far as I could tell, perfectly with the canon. Many of the characters and places in this pastiche are ones Conan Doyle alluded to in the original stories. I'm grateful that someone has so competently and colorfully fleshed them out. I've rated it four stars simply because five should be reserved for the real McCoy.
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