The Secret of Sherlock Holmes [Paperback]

Gary F. Boothe (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 145 pages
• Publisher: Gary F. Boothe; 1 edition (December 21, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966294106
• ISBN-13: 978-0966294101
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,061,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you want mistakes, buy this book, November 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)

Any Sherlockian will find all of the errors in this book distracting. If Boothe had done more research, it would have been a decent book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Little Gem, June 17, 2001

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David Eade "Discerning Fan" (BEVERLEY, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)

Ignore the bad reviews! This romp is a little gem. Yes, the secret is revealed early on, but it's a stunner and introduces a character who becomes an excellent foil for Holmes. Certainly not as wayward as some pastiches, but reasonably true to the spirit of Conan Doyle. There are plenty of poor Holmes books out there, but this isn't one of them. Grab it while it's available. I await the sequel, which I understand Gary F. Boothe is now writing.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars So bad it is kinda fun, August 23, 2000

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Sven Allenbach-Schmidt (Greenbelt, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)

A quite awful book, every plot point requires the most unlikely coincidences and illogical behavior. Some of the errors are so silly that I read it a second time just to spot them. Here is a good one to give you a feel for the whole book. Holmes offers his guest tea and biscuits, with "plenty of good honey and butter" for the biscuits. As anyone who knows anything about the English, as apparently author Boothe does not, when an Englishman says biscuit, he means what we call in the States a cookie.