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Originally Posted by pendragginp
I won't expect too much from this. After all, when you read a book you touch the writer's mind. No one can successfully imitate that. Remember how anemic the 'new' Lucia book was?
Or more recently, P.D. James' attempt to bring back Jane Austen's world and characters.
I've not seen this kind of thing reproduced by another mind convincingly.
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I've rarely seen it work well, but I very much liked Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes novel "The House of Silk". He really got the feel right, IMHO.
/JB