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WT Sharpe · 07-07-2011, 01:21 AM

Speaking of going outside the Conan Doyle books for more Holmes:

One of my favorites is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer. In this book, which somewhat turns the entire series on its head, Watson, at the request of Professor Moriarty, conspires to trick his friend into going to Vienna to visit Sigmund Freud to be cured of his cocaine addiction and his unhealthy delusional obsession that a mild-mannered school teacher is somehow the greatest criminal mastermind London has ever seen.

Another is A Study in Terror - Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper by Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) and Paul W. Fairman, who wrote the Sherlock Holmes bits. This story centers on an unpublished manuscript by Dr. Watson that fell into the hands of Ellery Queen detailing how Holmes attempted to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper. A wonderful book, and Mr. Fairman does an excellent job of recreating Doyle's style.

I don't know if either are available as ebooks, but if not, your local library may have them in print versions.

07-07-2011, 01:21 AM	#22
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Speaking of going outside the Conan Doyle books for more Holmes: One of my favorites is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer. In this book, which somewhat turns the entire series on its head, Watson, at the request of Professor Moriarty, conspires to trick his friend into going to Vienna to visit Sigmund Freud to be cured of his cocaine addiction and his unhealthy delusional obsession that a mild-mannered school teacher is somehow the greatest criminal mastermind London has ever seen. Another is A Study in Terror - Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper by Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) and Paul W. Fairman, who wrote the Sherlock Holmes bits. This story centers on an unpublished manuscript by Dr. Watson that fell into the hands of Ellery Queen detailing how Holmes attempted to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper. A wonderful book, and Mr. Fairman does an excellent job of recreating Doyle's style. I don't know if either are available as ebooks, but if not, your local library may have them in print versions. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 07-07-2011 at 01:27 AM.