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Originally Posted by CRussel
Somehow, I just can't think of any reason at all I would want to read this. It's one thing to do a take on Sherlock -- lots of people have, though the only one I actually enjoy is Laurie King's Mary Russell series. But the Titanic too? And they survive? No, I think I'll pass.
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series is a bunch of non-canonical novels, some of them are old novels that are being republished and some are brand new, but almost all of them are crossovers with real people/events of the time period, or other late 19th-century or early 20th-century literary characters. For instance, Holmes is inserted into
Phantom of the Opera, The War of the Worlds, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Tarzan, and
Dracula. The two I've read so far are fairly entertaining, enough that I want to keep reading the series.
When I'm reading the Mary Russell series, it feels like an extension to the canon. But the Further Adventures series shouldn't really be taken that way, they're more of a "what if" series. What if Holmes was on the Titanic? What if Holmes met the Phantom of the Opera, etc. Taken that way they are lots of fun. I've never seen the
Titanic movie so for me this book was an interesting way to find out about the historical event while also enjoying a Holmes mystery.