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Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Oct 16, 2024 7:33 PM

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective.

This TV tie-in edition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, which was first published in 1894, includes the infamous 'The Final Problem'. It is one of Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock tales and the detective's deadliest challenge. This is the ultimate thriller, in which Sherlock meets his intellectual match: the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As Moriarty pushes Sherlock to his intellectual limits, this game of cat and mouse will test not only their wits but their mortality.

Reviews

Eleven adventures from the crowded life of Sherlock Holmes, including 'The Final Problem', with which the author intended to close the career of his famous detective. But Holmes was a match for his creator, and 12 more stories follow in 'The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'.

—— Kirkus UK

In Drake's hands, ancient Egypt comes to life with all its treachery, vengeance, passion and power. A stunning achievement

—— M. C. SCOTT

Drake takes an ancient, long-lost civilization and makes it feel frighteningly familiar. I was captivated from first page to last

—— GILES KRISTIAN

Richly imagined, fiendishly plotted, gruesomely evocative, this is the storytelling equivalent of 'shedeh' - the most prized of ancient Egyptian beverages

—— PAUL SUSSMAN

This much can be stated with assurance: this novel will be a huge hit with fans of the series, of Egypt-themed mysteries, of modern-day thrillers, and - what the heck - anyone not included in those groups

—— Booklist (starred review)

Memorable, atmospheric and compelling

—— Tim Souster , Times Literary Supplement

A beautiful and haunting book...A charming and deeply imaginative novel

—— Aesthetica

Lyrical in his descriptions on the land of the midnight sun

—— Clare Colvin , Daily Mail

Burnside's prose has been frequently praised for its clarity, poetic sonority and fine cadences. It is certainly so here ... A Summer of Drowning marries philosophical meditation with the gooseflesh verve of a thriller

—— Stuart Kelly , Scotland on Sunday

Burnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange

—— Margaret Reynolds , The Times

Unsettling, hauntingly memorable tale

—— Sunday Times

Written with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps and non sequiturs and a clever travesty of several genres, this is a disturbing, provocative book'

—— Guardian


[A Summer of Drowning] brings an eerie glow to the colours and sounds, flora and foodstuffs of the far north

—— Justine Jordan , Guardian

This is a love story, told in reverse, a haunting tale of youth and lost love, and a poetical thriller.A powerful debut and a distinctive voice

—— Tom Hollander

Elanor Dymott’s gorgeous debut novel is a murder mystery that’s also a brilliant meditation on love and memory and loss. Like the Robert Browning poems her characters read at Oxford, the book is spooky, lovesick, dark, and lush, its narrator circling obsessively back on the death at its heart

—— Maile Meloy

An irresistible blast of an opening which never disappoints in a journey into a complex knot of intense and ultimately destructive relationships from which the murder that is the dark core ofThis excellent debut novel distills

—— Jon Snow

A beautiful, lucid nightmare of a book. A mystery of love and murder that is elegantly written, disturbing, always compelling, and lingers long in the mind

—— Adam Foulds

A literary thriller wrapped up in a whodunit love story, Elanor Dymott's debut makes for compulsive reading. The complexity of the plot put me in mind of The Secret History;
it deserves to reach just as wide an audience

—— John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Every Contact Leaves a Trace is beautifully paced, from the graphic event at its start through all its shifting possibilities to its strange, logical conclusion. It is a marvelous book

—— Bernard O’Donoghue

Erudite debut

—— Independent

This murder mystery...gripped me with unusual force... This novel sucks you in beautifully, and will not let you go

—— Evening Standard

This is a class act which unveils its secrets as tantalisingly as a courtesan

—— John Koski , Daily Mail Ireland

Wonderfully evocative of Oxford, this is a love story and a mystery that will keep you guessing

—— Good Book Guide

Part love story, part murder mystery… Dymott’s novel is ample proof of the literary flair that lurks within some lawyers

—— Alex Wade , The Times

One of the best books I’ve read this year

—— Edinburgh Evening News
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