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A review by cmbohn
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King
4.0
You never know with anthologies, but I really enjoyed this one. There was only one story that I couldn't finish, (the graphic story by Colin Cotterill), but the rest were truly enjoyable.
Some of the authors chose to take a pretty straightforward route, using the established Holmes characters and adding a new story. Others used the regular characters and wrote about Holmes as fiction. But some went in a totally different direction. Of these, I liked the Dana Stabenow story the best. I could see the parallels, with Kate Shugak filling in for Holmes and a young friend/relative as Watson, complete with a blog as homework assignment chronicling their adventure. But it wasn't until I read that this was an retelling of a classic Holmes story in a modern Alaskan setting that I really, really liked it.
Some of the authors chose to take a pretty straightforward route, using the established Holmes characters and adding a new story. Others used the regular characters and wrote about Holmes as fiction. But some went in a totally different direction. Of these, I liked the Dana Stabenow story the best. I could see the parallels, with Kate Shugak filling in for Holmes and a young friend/relative as Watson, complete with a blog as homework assignment chronicling their adventure. But it wasn't until I read that this was an retelling of a classic Holmes story in a modern Alaskan setting that I really, really liked it.