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The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reader Reviews 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Better Than the "Seven-Per-Cent Solution", April 11, 2003 Reviewer: a_mathematician from Doha, Qatar I was reluctant to read this one after the "Seven-Percent Solution," but Mr. Meyer disappointed me by writing a much better story. This story appeared first in Play Boy, and the book is a longer revision of that one. The story is about Murders that haunted the west end. Of course Sherlock Holmes cannot hold back when there are murders nearby. The good thing about the book is that Mr. Meyer does not claim that any of the manuscripts provided by Doyle were forgeries. The bad thing is that he still uses real characters, like Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker, which I still say is dumb. One other thing I hate about these pastiches is that they insist on saying that Watson was a real person, and that he used to publish his work under the pseudonym Conan Doyle, or else that Conan Doyle was the agent under whose name Watson used to publish works. I realize that this is one way to make things continue, but come on, we all know that we are only fooling ourselves. Anyhow, I think the book might deserve 4 stars if not for the little drawbacks I mentioned above, and I am sure you are going to enjoy it, but try first to get it from the library, just in case you detested it.
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