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A review by kpeninger
Death by Gaslight by Michael Kurland
4.0
I enjoyed this one more than the first book in the series, but it still struggles with the same things that many 70s-80s pastiches had problems with: having to dumb Sherlock Holmes down in order to make their own character seem smarter. It also has trouble with just taking SH quotes and putting them in Moriarty's mouth, which... if you're going to do that, why not just write SH?
I still love the premise of this series, and it does have some really interesting secondary characters (love Mummer, love Cecily), so it's definitely worth reading, and I purchased the third book last night since my library didn't have it and I wanted it NOW. I'm hoping to see some changes and adjustments as those books were written much later, and so the author will have had time to change and grow.
I still love the premise of this series, and it does have some really interesting secondary characters (love Mummer, love Cecily), so it's definitely worth reading, and I purchased the third book last night since my library didn't have it and I wanted it NOW. I'm hoping to see some changes and adjustments as those books were written much later, and so the author will have had time to change and grow.