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Sep. 21st, 2008
Summary: Happily partnered Kate Martinelli, a lesbian police detective in the SFPD, funds herself investigating the murder of Phillip Gilbert, a noted Sherlock Holmesiphile, who was so obsessive about his hobby that he had the first two floors of his home transformed into a replica of 221B Baker Street. Soon she finds herself deep in the mildly weird world of hardcore Holmesians, one of whom may have killed Gilbert over the manuscript he discovered: A previously unknown Sherlock Holmes mystery possibly penned by Conan Doyle himself, with some extremely (for the 1920's) salacious subject matter.
Review: A pretty routine police procedural, livened up by a nice invocation of San Francisco, both in the modern day and the text of the mysterious manuscript, which comprises the middle section of the novel. It's a good pastiche, which is to be expected from King, made more amusing by Martinelli's complete dismissal of the Holmesians as a bunch of loons. For those who care about that sort of thing, there's also some very positive views of homosexuals and lesbians to be found, both in the modern day and the 1920's era pastiche.
Review: A pretty routine police procedural, livened up by a nice invocation of San Francisco, both in the modern day and the text of the mysterious manuscript, which comprises the middle section of the novel. It's a good pastiche, which is to be expected from King, made more amusing by Martinelli's complete dismissal of the Holmesians as a bunch of loons. For those who care about that sort of thing, there's also some very positive views of homosexuals and lesbians to be found, both in the modern day and the 1920's era pastiche.