
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons
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Narrated by:
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Dennis Kleinman
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By:
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James Lovegrove
New York Times best-selling author James Lovegrove’s continues the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor....
The year 1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife, Audrey, and their three-year-old son, Harry.
Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to Sir Henry’s aid, and our heroes must face a marauding beast that is the very stuff of nightmares. It seems that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all, as Holmes believed, and is hell-bent on revenge....
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Faithful
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Furthermore the mysteries themselves are well concocted.
Mr. Kleinman honours the prose with a fully Watsonish personality, in addition to gracing Holmes with the thin, well-bred voice of the smug detective. Other characters, male, female, youth and elderly are given believable pitch and tone, with regional accents well mastered. Thank you for the treat.
Mystery writing and narration at its best
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Enjoyed immensely
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Very interesting take on Sherlock Holmes
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A little too implausible and untrue to characters
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Enjoyable but a little predictable
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Fantastic!
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A fantastic read, the character of Grier is a welcome addition, and the narrator really does him justice. And bonus points because I learned how to drain a mire.
Mortimer was a vet, not a doctor
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A Worthy Tribute to Sir Conan
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It was really fun to read a new Sherlock Holmes story. This one keeps to the texture of the original so closely, it might have been printed in The Strand.
One welcome update is a Black American character, a Buffalo Soldier, and Dr. Watson’s being frankly angry about the bigotry he faces. It works into the structure of the novel seamlessly.
As the casual racism of the original stories always makes me cringe, this was a change I really appreciate.
Mind you, Dr. Watson still seriously proposes that a woman’s “Latin temperament” might, in and of itself, cause her to commit murder. So that ridiculous motif is still present.
Overall, it’s as flawed, and as fun, as the original stories.
Well done!
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