A review by philippurserhallard
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Margaret Maron, Neil Gaiman, Leslie S. Klinger, Charles Todd, Lee Child, S.J. Rozan, Laurie R. King, Laura Lippman, Jerry Margolin, Jan Burke, Lionel Chetwynd, Thomas Perry, John Sheldon, Gayle Lynds, Dana Stabenow, Jacqueline Winspear, Colin Cotterill, Alan Bradley, Tony Broadbent, Phillip Margolin

2.0

There's only one outstanding story in this volume, and you can read it in [a:Neil Gaiman|1221698|Neil Gaiman|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1234150163p2/1221698.jpg]'s [b:Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances|22522808|Trigger Warning Short Fictions and Disturbances|Neil Gaiman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1415036119s/22522808.jpg|41947380] surrounded by much better stuff. The rest are a ragtag assemblage of stories featuring Holmes, stories set in the margins of the Holmes canon, stories about responses to Holmes as fiction, and stories "inspired by" (to varying degrees of approximation) the Holmes stories. In some of them the links are so tenuous as to be invisible; others are horribly self-indulgent. (One story set entirely among Holmes experts includes a character called "Ronald Adair", with nobody remarking on the fact that he shares his name with one of the better-known murder victims.) There are some OK detective stories and some dire ones, but Gaiman's story aside, the book has nothing of interest to say about Holmes, nor does it serve on the basic level to relieve a fan's addiction.