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A review by krisrid
The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson
1.0
This was a disappointment. I didn't finish it.
The description of the book made it sound like there was a big Sherlock Holmes connection, but really the only involvement of Holmes is the fact that the offices one of the main characters leases is on Baker Street, and people write letters to Sherlock at that address. The owner of the building requires anyone who rents the premises to respond to the letters with a form-letter response. So the misleading suggestion of a Holmes connection was the first disappointment.
The second disappointment was the characters - not one of the ones introduced in the first third of the story [which was as far as I could stand to read] was at all likeable or even interesting to me, and couldn't manage to work up any interest whatsoever about what might happen to them.
Finally, this was presented as a mystery, and I suppose if you REALLY stretched, you could call the fact that one of the main characters becomes interested enough in one of the letters to Holmes to drop everything and run off to L.A. to try to find the grown woman who when she was eight years old 20 years ago, wrote a letter to Holmes.
The problem is that virtually nothing happens in the first third of the book. There's some set-up of the two brothers who are the main characters, but it's too much detail, and it is dull as dirt, so maybe the rest of the book gets more exciting, but I wasn't willing to waste more reading time risking that hope.
The description of the book made it sound like there was a big Sherlock Holmes connection, but really the only involvement of Holmes is the fact that the offices one of the main characters leases is on Baker Street, and people write letters to Sherlock at that address. The owner of the building requires anyone who rents the premises to respond to the letters with a form-letter response. So the misleading suggestion of a Holmes connection was the first disappointment.
The second disappointment was the characters - not one of the ones introduced in the first third of the story [which was as far as I could stand to read] was at all likeable or even interesting to me, and couldn't manage to work up any interest whatsoever about what might happen to them.
Finally, this was presented as a mystery, and I suppose if you REALLY stretched, you could call the fact that one of the main characters becomes interested enough in one of the letters to Holmes to drop everything and run off to L.A. to try to find the grown woman who when she was eight years old 20 years ago, wrote a letter to Holmes.
The problem is that virtually nothing happens in the first third of the book. There's some set-up of the two brothers who are the main characters, but it's too much detail, and it is dull as dirt, so maybe the rest of the book gets more exciting, but I wasn't willing to waste more reading time risking that hope.