Can You Solve My Problems?: A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles
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Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the...
Murder Under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season
Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ngaio Marsh and Cecily Gayford
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Murder most festive...A locked room mystery solved with a flourish on Boxing Day. Blackmail on...
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Fruit Bat (42 KP) rated The Strange Case of Caroline Maxwell in Books
Mar 1, 2018
This book has all the ingredients that makes a great mystery novel. The question is what is there not to love history mixed with fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper with a great references to Agatha Christie and a famous little Belgian detective.
Amanda's book deserves so much more then the twos reviews it has on Amazon .
The book is truly well researched and comes across as a great labour of love , I loved spotting the historical cases that where mixed among the fiction. If you have the opportunity to read this book I recommend you do it's not to be missed.
Amanda I loved this book from start to finish thank you for the opportunity to read it I hope to see more of this wonderful character
Profiling is now used by lots of detectives to narrow down the suspect pool and to try and give them a lead. But it had to start somewhere, and this case was the one that started it all.
Continue reading my review at: https://www.readsandrecipes.co.uk/2017/01/going-out-with-bang.html
James Koppert (2698 KP) rated A House Of Ghosts in Books
Nov 10, 2019
The London Noisy Tube
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Young children will love to press the sound button and hear an authentic mind the gap message as...
David McK (3248 KP) rated Sherlock Holmes (2009) in Movies
Nov 1, 2020 (Updated Jan 13, 2024)
Unlike the more-contemporary set TV 'Sherlock', this is still set in Victorian times although, I have to say, that I never really took to the portrayal of Holmes in this film at all. It's also a completely-new (to the best of my knowledge) mystery for him to solve; not based on any of the Conan Doyle stories. That's both a good thing and a bad thing: it does mean that it's 'fresh' (unlike, say, another retelling of 'The Hounds of the Baskervilles'), but - I have to say - it also lacks the fun, the sense of mystery, the sheer enthrallment of the Conan Doyle stories.
The Oxford Book of Parodies
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Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious...
The stories in this collection are, for the most part, very good. The last couple weren't as engaging, but there's always going to be one or two you don't like. This collection even includes a tale about Sherlock Holmes (and Watson, of course) bt Arthur Conan Doyle himself. It was actually the first I've read of his work, and it was definitely as fantastic as I'd hoped.
Like the other book, the ten stories very from missing jewels hidden inside geese, to missing candle sticks, to death-by-radio. They're all very interesting mysteries, again seemingly simple on the surface but always a lot more incricate than they seem.
A nice collection of classic "festive" crimes. 3.5 stars.