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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Mmmm, this just cries out for a Madeline Miller rec... Circe would be too new, but The Song of Achilles wouldn't.
I wonder if pastiches would also fit here. Something like The Seven-Percent Solution which is a telling of Holmes' cocaine addiction or The Bee-Keeper's Apprentice, which is the retired life of Sherlock Holmes.
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I don't see why not.
Obviously Doyle just forgot those parts so they need to be retold.
Other obvious books would be a book that is a retelling or based on some mythology. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (and other series by Rick Riordan), The Lost Gate (Norse and other mythology), The Book of Three/Black Cauldron (based on some Welsh mythology), etc.
I was even thinking some of Seth Grahame-Smith's books would work. It was really surprising how much I enjoyed
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The meshing of fact and fiction was enjoyable but not frustrating like it was (to me) in Alias Grace.