[.ca] The Singular Adventures of MR Sherlock Holmes (ISBN 1846855047)

True to original:
Well written pastiche in true Conan Doyle Style. Only criticism is what i consider to be a flaw in the 'alibi' tale - but I won't spoil it for you.... Highly recommended - go buy it!! +++

Fun, but not the best:
PRO: The author avoids the trap of overloading his stories with gratuitous references to Holmes trivia (the opium syringe, the persian slipper, the coal scuttle, "the game's afoot!" etc.). Thanks to this, the stories read like genuine new Holmes stories and not cookie-cutter pastiches. CON: However, to me the tone is not authentic. It sounds almost 20th Century American in places, although I understand the author is British. Holmes at times behaves in so un-Holmes-like a way as to suggest that an imposter has taken his place. He tends to be more uncooperative and disagreeable than the Holmes of the canon, and shows some curious intellectual and logical lapses in solving, or failing to solve, the mysteries. He occasionally does things, as in the last story, that Holmes simply wouldn't do. The stories themselves present true problems (as opposed to being simply action stories featuring a character named Sherlock Holmes). However, the solutions tend to be a bit obvious in some of them. I will happily read almost any pastiche, and I enjoyed these, but I'd place them no higher than the middle of the pack overall because of the inauthentic tone and sometimes unimaginative plots. (Of course Doyle sets a high standard.)