The Final Solution CD : A Story of Detection (CD-Audio)

from nohablo

Tightly and glossily written, and pocked with clever pangs of conscience, but feels a bit unintentionally opaque and unfinished; the final gut punch is subtle and nicely savage, but it too is a little neat, and I have trouble understanding the outpour of critical praise.

from eleanor_eader

A short, fine - if not always entirely convincing - Sherlock Holmes pastiche in which a young, mute, Jewish boy loses his rare pet African parrot and a lodger of the family with whom he is staying is killed. I say 'not entirely convincing', but mean only the set-up; the writing and handling of th...

from jeanned

An unnamed, retired, pipe-smoking, beekeeper is engaged by local police to investigate a murder at a Sussex Downs vicarage.   The murder coincides with the theft of an African grey parrot from a young Jewish orphan, and it is this crime on which the beekeeper agrees  to apply his formidable, yet ...

from the_awesome_opossum

The Final Solution is Michael Chabon's postmodern answer to Sherlock Holmes. "Mysteries" are not so nearly as neatly laid out and the narrative doesn't clearly define every ambiguity. Circumstances extend beyond what is said, and even the most astute detective can't know everything. The once-famo...

from laytonwoman3rd

Chabon takes a stab at adding to the Sherlock Holmes canon, by giving us the great sleuth in advanced retirement, lured out of his self-imposed bee-keeping isolation to help solve a murder and the disappearance of an intriguing parrot. The detection required would have been no challenge at all to...