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I tried reading Caleb Carr's "The Italian Secretary," as it came highly recommended from a friend. But I couldn't get into it, because it's a ghost story, and Holmes professes a belief in ghosts in the beginning of the story to Holmes. It seemed so out of character for Holmes to say such a thing. Also, the great thing about Sherlock Holmes stories is that the mystery always seems so unexplainable until the very end, when Holmes lays out all the facts for you and you realize you could have figured it out yourself because you had all the same facts he did. But once you introduce the paranormal into the mix, none of it really matters, because there's always a way to explain the unexplainable as "ghosts did it."
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