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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0108351
EAN: 9780425167540
ISBN: 0425167542
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: November 01, 1998
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Sales Rank: 620167
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been solving cases and amazing fans for more than a century...Now, today's best mystery writers have gathered together to present fourteen original Holmes stories in one festive collection.
Contributors include: * Anne Perry * Loren D. Estleman * Carole Nelson Douglas * Reginald Hill * Barbara Paul * Gillian Linscott * Gwen Moffat * Jon L. Breen * J.N. Williamson * John Stoessel * William L. DeAndrea * Bill Crider * Edward D. Hoch * Carolyn Wheat
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I liked reading different people's viewpoints of Holmes in this fun collection. Some of the stories featured a cheerful, almost Santa Claus version of Holmes. There is room for many takes on Sherlock Holmes' personality, as this book admirably portrays.
The best stories in the collection, or at least my favorite ones, were "A Scandal in Winter," and "The Italian Sherlock Holmes" because of their depth and amazing use of atmosphere. I don't want to give away the plots, but I thought ... Read More
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If you've ever loved a short story, a mystery, and christmas, this is the book for you!
Sherlock Holmes is always a classic. I highly reccommend this holiday mystery anthology.
My personal favorite is , "The Yuletide Affair." By John Stoessel. Short, yet very sweet and heartwarming. Happy Holidays, book lovers!!
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My comments are organized by author, rather than in order of appearance. For some of the best stories, I haven't said much, since they're hard to praise without giving away pieces of the plot.
Two of the stories tackle the same theme: the person who inherited the firm of Scrooge & Marley begins having ghostly visitations and consults Holmes. (A priori, they're not ghosts but something else, so that Holmes works out how the trick was done.) Crider's version of the story strikes me as ... Read More
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Most of these pastiches range from good to very good. And I personally loved "The Yuletide Affair," which is a Watson case. Most of the others were enjoyable also. Unfortunately, two writers decided to incorporate "A Christmas Carol" into their stories which got redundant quickly. "A Scandal in Winter" was also a demerit to this book. If not for those three stories, I would have given five stars instead of four.
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The title is quite clever, although a little misleading. There isn't a lot of Christmas involved -- of course, with Holmes, there wouldn't be. Some stories are, as usual, better than others. Some are downright bad. A few have the distressing tendency that some Holmes "fans" have to glorify, or at least "redeem" Watson. Let's face it, true Holmes fans don't read the stories to hear about Watson! Despite a few clinkers, this is a pretty good book -- but I wish it had been available in paperback!
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