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Old 01-29-2011, 02:46 PM   #8031
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
...Frankly, if you happen to want to read an "everything you thought you knew was wrong" story about Holmes which involves
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Moriarty being the secret influence behind Holmes becoming Holmes and Watson and Mycroft teaming up in cahoots with him in order to lead Holmes astray and in the end breaking him free of the baneful influence at Reichenbach Falls
, Nicholas Meyer's The Seven Per-Cent Solution is by far better thought out and vastly more entertaining. There's supposed to be a decent movie based upon it, too.
As someone who read all four Holmes novels and all of the Holmes short stories that Sir SCD wrote, I concur wholeheartedly with your assessment of The Seven Per-Cent Solution. Not only did that inventive re-imagining turn the entire Homes legacy on it's head, but it did so in a way only Holmes' fans could truly appreciate, and that's quite a feat! Both the book and the movie are excellent.
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