A review by ablotial
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

3.0

This was a pretty entertaining book of historical fiction, based on real events that happened in the life of Sir Conan Doyle. It takes place during a period of time that is "missing" from the journals that Doyle kept, and is a fantastical guess at what may have happened during that time and why the journal vanished. It alternates between 1901, where we follow the adventures of Doyle himself, and the present day where we follow the perspective of Harold White, a Sherlock Holmes fanatic who gets sucked into investigating the murder of one of the most prevalent "Sherlockians" in the world. I very much enjoyed both time periods, but I liked the present-day story line better. I liked the author's note at the end to explain which parts were real and which parts were fiction -- some of the real pieces surprised me. It was a good mystery... but nothing compared to a good Holmes story.