![]() Here’s a passage, for example, where Holmes ponders his role as a sleuth: New Sherlock Holmes stories like this one must, at their best, emulate Conan Doyle’s style and portray Holmes’s insightful manner of investigation. Does someone else love Lady Diana and wants Selton to bugger off, or is something deeper and more sinister afoot? Adam wants Holmes to find the purveyor of the threat and stop him or her from interfering. Adam intends to marry Lady Diana, but has been put off by an anonymous letter implying that there is an ancient curse on Diana’s family and that marrying her would put him and others in grave danger. Watson (the story teller) by a troubled young man named Adam Selton. It begins with a visit to London’s Baker Street home of Sherlock Holmes (the sleuth) and his friend Dr. Both take place out on the moors of Britain and, Hound-like, The White Worm is dark, mysterious, riveting and is a challenging read-as such stories should be. Sam Siciliano’s The White Worm reminds us of Doyle’s popular story, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). In recent years, as the copyright has run out on Holmesian mystery writing, many others have tried their hand at copying Doyle’s style, with generally good success. ![]() ![]() The Victorian author Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) wrote what has become, arguably, the world’s most popular series of detective thrillers, featuring the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. ![]() ![]() Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks ![]()
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