The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes [Import] [Hardcover]

Marvin Kaye (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (April 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0312207131
• ISBN-13: 978-0312207137
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A drab book that lacks excitement, May 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)

I picked up this book expecting to find a book packed with intricate mysteries and excitement only to be disappointed by being presented with a series of stories that I can only describe as lame and totally uninteresting. Luckily, there are a few stories worthy of reading that rescues the book from being given a rating of 2 or less. I was surprised at the inconsistency found in the writing styles. There were only about 4 out of the 15 stories worthy of reading. All the rest would have put any poor soul to sleep by 2nd paragraph! Totally disappointing and not worth being published as a hardcover...way over priced!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money, April 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)

As a long-time Holmes fan, I have read most of the stories written by a surprisingly vast number of authors. I have found, for the most part, that it doesn't make much difference in the quality of the story if the author is a "famous" author or relatively unknown. The writing may be good but the story is trash. As was the case here.

Why do authors have to incorporate famous people with Holmes? How many "ripper" stories have been written? Now we find Holmes on the Titanic -- and apparently the "mystery" was secondary to the description of the ship. We also are subjected to a story regarding Doyle's temptation into adultry -- since when has Holmes been a marriage counselor? And to have him and Watson race to get to the hotel "in time" to prevent it is not only stupid but hokey as well!

A few stories had merit but not enough to make the price of this over size paperback worth it.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best anthology, April 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)

I thought this book was going to be better than it was, especially after reading Marvin Kaye's other Holmes anthology, "The Resurrected Holmes". I was disappointed in the slim pickings in this volume. Only a few of the stories were actually good and worth reading. Some, like "A Ballad of the White Plague" and "Vittoria, the Circus Belle", are flat-out strange. It was quite a disappointment, especially for Holmes fans.