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The Fifth Heart (2015)

door Dan Simmons

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams ?? member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.
Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus ?? his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character.
This leads to serious complications for James ?? for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power ?? possibly named Moriarty ?? that may or may not be controlling them fr
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“In the rainy March 1893 for reasons that no one understands primarily because no one besides us is aware of this story, the London-based American Henry James decided to ..."
And thus begins the Fifth Heart❤️ a 2015 novel by Dan Simmons of Hyperion Cantos fame.
Two characters, Henry James realist-literary writer of Victorian age and an imaginary contemporary but no less eminent Sherlock Holmes, team up to solve a literary conundrum and detective mystery par excellence.
Readers of Simmon's Drood will find familiar elements here but so will anybody who has been introduced to a certain private detective of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal fiction - which is just about anyone.

Again, Dan Simmons does not disappoint. Not only are his historical and fictional characters skillfully researched, splendidly imagined and by the gifts of this thoroughly talented writer's pen fluidly ensconced in a meticulously researched environment but also woven into plot line that is as just as imaginative as it is convincing. Morover, when halfway through the book, Samuel Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - takes the stage, Mr. Simmons outshines himself. Managing a remake of the literary persona of the imminent American writer, Simmons’ Twain is as humorous and audacious as the trademark Missourian in the flesh, inclusive a fitting Southern plantation accent, if you have access to the audio version that is. Mr. Simmons convincingly recreates the time and localities of the past, the Grantian gilded age where his characters can feel truly at home.

Summa summarum, Mr. Simmons has excelled at his craft, once more. Persistently and consistently he be-gifts us with, once every couple of years, with a quality work of fiction of which this latest work is only proof. He is, however, at the top of his game when he brings close to us the lives of historical characters, well-crafted and embellished to produce a fictional life based on a solid historical fundament. It is then when he tends to deliver a true masterpiece. ( )
  nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |
While I loved the inclusion of some of my favorite writers, I am not a fan of history rewritten to suit modern sensibilities or to make someone a villain. I found the dialogs tedious and the descriptions overdrawn.

I quit a bit under half-way through the book. It's a Dan Simmons' door-stopper that should have been a novelette. ( )
  rabbit-stew | Dec 31, 2023 |
Clever juxtaposition of Henry James, Sherlock Holmes, Henry Adams and other luminaries. Set at time of Colombian exhibition on Chicago. ( )
  waldhaus1 | May 21, 2023 |
Simmons plays God in this novel that takes place in the time leading up to the opening of the Columbian Chicago World's Fair in 1893. He brings Sherlock Holmes to life, moves Samuel Clemons and Rudyard Kipling around like puppets to participate in his story, and brings in Paha Sapa, a character from his story"Black Hills," to the fair.

A pretty good read. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
Signs your book might suck:
1. Your narrator disappears midway thru Ch 1;
2. Narrator reappears randomly in Ch 9 to apologize for changing the character POV, explaining he has no explanation for doing so... but he's definitely going to do it again;
3. The premise (so far) is a failed author is traveling with Sherlock Holmes to solve a murder but Holmes is in disguise because he faked his own death when he found out he could be a fictional character;
4. The failed author is the protagonist who is a self-righteous know-it-all... in the company of Sherlock Holmes. ( )
  ilkjen | Jan 21, 2022 |
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This book is dedicated to Richard Curtis, my invaluable agent and dear friend and fellow fan of both baseball and Mr. Henry James.
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In the rainy March of 1893, for reasons that no one understands (primarily because no one besides us is aware of this story), the London-based American author Henry James decided to spend his April 15 birthday in Paris and there, on or before his birthday, commit suicide by throwing himself into the Seine at night.
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“Wives have a way of dying,” said James.
“Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn’t sound very American to me,” said James.
“No,” agreed Holmes. “It sounds German. Very German.”
Alice had been a professional invalid for decades and had welcomed the diagnosis of cancer. Death, she’d told her brother Henry, was the event which she’d always been anticipating with the greatest enthusiasm.
Just as Hollywood would beckon literary writers to their doom for more than a century to come, the English theater in the 1890’s was sucking in men of letters who—like Henry James—really had no clue as to how to write a successful stage production for a popular audience.
Henry James would have preferred to stay silent, but he knew he was expected to fulfill his role as interlocutor.
“How did you survive that terrible fall, Mr. Holmes?”
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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams ?? member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.
Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus ?? his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character.
This leads to serious complications for James ?? for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power ?? possibly named Moriarty ?? that may or may not be controlling them fr

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