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A review by songwind
A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning
3.0
Are you a Holmes fan? Do you like dry humor and parody? Do you love the Kingsley/Caine movie Without a Clue?
If you answered yes to these questions, you'll enjoy Warlock Holmes. Denning has taken the major characters of Doyle's work and twisted them a bit to create an amusing bit of farce with a familiar face. Our narrator, John Watson, is still a doctor, but in this incarnation he uses his powers of observation and deduction learned from the practice of medicine to solve crimes. Holmes, for his part, is a practitioner of dark arts, all his quirks turned up to 11 and given some very unusual explanations. Lestrade and Gregson of Scotland Yard make appearances as well.
The book starts off with a parody of [b:A Study in Scarlet|102868|A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)|Arthur Conan Doyle|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1519031842s/102868.jpg|1997473], adopting the same basic narrative structure, but with enough changed to keep it interesting.
That was interesting enough, but the later stories are even more successful. I know that at least one is inspired by a canon Holmes story, "The Case of the Speckled Band," but I don't know enough to say for sure about the others.
In summary, a very successful and fun book. I look forward to reading about the rest of Warlock and Watson's adventures.
If you answered yes to these questions, you'll enjoy Warlock Holmes. Denning has taken the major characters of Doyle's work and twisted them a bit to create an amusing bit of farce with a familiar face. Our narrator, John Watson, is still a doctor, but in this incarnation he uses his powers of observation and deduction learned from the practice of medicine to solve crimes. Holmes, for his part, is a practitioner of dark arts, all his quirks turned up to 11 and given some very unusual explanations. Lestrade and Gregson of Scotland Yard make appearances as well.
The book starts off with a parody of [b:A Study in Scarlet|102868|A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)|Arthur Conan Doyle|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1519031842s/102868.jpg|1997473], adopting the same basic narrative structure, but with enough changed to keep it interesting.
That was interesting enough, but the later stories are even more successful. I know that at least one is inspired by a canon Holmes story, "The Case of the Speckled Band," but I don't know enough to say for sure about the others.
In summary, a very successful and fun book. I look forward to reading about the rest of Warlock and Watson's adventures.