The House of Silk, (Paperback)

from tuckerresearch

I don't really read too many Sherlock Holmes pastiches, because the stories are never really as fulfilling as those by the master. Still, there are some decent ones, like Meyer's Seven-Percent Solution, and this one by British screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz is pretty good. There are som...

from Craiglea

It's not often that one gets to to read a new Sherlock Holmes novel so I eagerly anticipated the arrival of the new Anthony Horowitz Holmes story, commissioned by the Doyle family, The House of Silk. I have read Sherlock Holmes stories since I was a young reader borrowing the books from Burntisla...

from kevn57

Ever since the Sherlock show ended, I been on a bit of a Holmes kick so this months feature novel in the The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group came at a great time. I'm a big fan of Horowitz's TV work on Midsummer Murders, and also a Sherlock fan so I hoped that it would read more like a Doyle s...

from abealy

Alone at the end of his career, and a year since the death of his friend and confidant Sherlock Holmes, Watson sits down to chronicle a final tale that is so foul and disturbing that it must not be published until a hundred years in the future when perhaps the world "will be more inured to scanda...

from drmaf

Exceptionally good. I've read it a few times now and it seems to gain more depth every time. Its far away the best non-canonical Holmes story I've read in recent times, although the predictable inclusion of Moriarty, which I had hoped the writer might find the willpower to avoid, was disappointin...