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Bezig met laden... Sherlock Holmes in Americadoor Martin H. Greenberg (Redacteur), John Lellenberg (Redacteur), Daniel Stashower (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was a good one. Mostly because all I remember about it was that it kinda introduced me to the concept of Sherlock Holmes romances. ( ) Anthologies generally take longer for me to finish because the stories don't connect and there isn't that "I must find out what happens next" effect. This was an uneven anthology with generally good stories, but the ones that didn't ring true really threw me. There are fourteen stories, three essays, and an introduction. My least favorite was Daniel Stashower's "The Seven Walnuts" where Sherlock Holmes doesn't even appear. I like Houdini, but I felt cheated. On the other hand, Victoria Thompson's "The Minister's Missing Daughter" felt very Holmes-ish. The final problem for me was the number of typographical issues in the Kindle edition. Words were run together; I suspect many had something to do with words that were hyphenated at the end of a line. I've seen the same problem when pulling text from a PDF into a text document. A spell check would have caught them, but obviously wasn't done. If you like mysteries that involve Sherlock Holmes, I think you would find the book interesting. The stories are not pastiches, but have the tone of each individual author. Tackle it with an open mind and give it some leeway for the typos if you choose the Kindle version. It has probably been a decade since I read through all of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories so it was nice to revisit the character in the newly released Sherlock Holmes in America. With a foreward by Daniel Stashower and also including a dinner speech about America from Conan Doyle himself, this collection of short stories about Holmes is literally all over the map ... of America. Some stories in this book feature Holmes by himself, some with Watson, a couple with his brother Mycroft and one story even stars a young Harry Houdini picturing himself as Sherlock Holmes. The stories take place in such varied places as San Diego, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and Boston. Some of the stories are based on previously written Holmes stories and others are completely new. Most of the mysteries are somewhat simple but the characters are complex and interesting. Even if you haven't read any Sherlock Holmes stories before, this book stands alone fairly well. http://webereading.com/2009/04/new-release-sherlock-holmes-in-america.html geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From the bustling neighborhoods of New York City and Washington, D.C., to sunny yet sinister cities like San Francisco on the West Coast, the world's best-loved British sleuth will face some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer, and meet some of America's most famous figures along the way. A fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.08208351Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fictionLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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