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Good Night, Mr. Holmes
by Carole Nelson Douglas
This parallels a Scandal in Bohemia, starting a few years earlier with the association of the narrator Nell with Irene Adler, going on to describe Adler's adventures from the perspective of the protagonist rather than the object of someone else's story. The book starts off a bit slow and some of the themes were kind of clumsily handled* in the first 25-30% of the book, but it builds into a pretty satisfying ending that both ties up the canonical adventure and an additional original mystery rather nicely. Not a masterpiece, but diverting enough and enough to make me want to look up the next book in the series.
Main gripe, a gypsy [sic] fortune-teller who foretells the identity of her eventual beloved, a man whose identity that the reader knows both from A Scandal in Bohemia and from his earlier presence in the book, only to have both Irene and Nell go "but who could it be?!?!?!" Come on.
*I'm told that this is a later rewrite of the book in which the feminist themes that were present-but-subtle in the first version were dropped on the reader's head like an anvil. Anyone who knows me knows that I am certainly neeeeeeever going to ding a book for being too feminist, but I dislike it when morality is delivered at the expense of the flow and rhythm of a story, and would've preferred a subtler hand.
Main gripe, a gypsy [sic] fortune-teller who foretells the identity of her eventual beloved, a man whose identity that the reader knows both from A Scandal in Bohemia and from his earlier presence in the book, only to have both Irene and Nell go "but who could it be?!?!?!" Come on.
*I'm told that this is a later rewrite of the book in which the feminist themes that were present-but-subtle in the first version were dropped on the reader's head like an anvil. Anyone who knows me knows that I am certainly neeeeeeever going to ding a book for being too feminist, but I dislike it when morality is delivered at the expense of the flow and rhythm of a story, and would've preferred a subtler hand.