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Lyndsay Faye is the best.

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyndsay Faye

January 4, 2019 by narfna 12 Comments

I’ve read quite a bit of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, though by no means even close to all of it, and so far, I think Lyndsay Faye’s version of Holmes and Watson is my favorite. This collection, which was gifted to me by Bunnybean for Book Exchange in CBR9, is made up of fifteen stories published over a period of ten years, many of them in The Strand, the very same magazine that published Conan Doyle’s original stories. All of the stories mimic Conan Doyle’s style, […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: lost mysteries of sherlock holmes, Lyndsay Faye, mystery, narfna, pastiche, Sherlock Holmes, short stories, the whole art of detection

narfna's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: lost mysteries of sherlock holmes, Lyndsay Faye, mystery, narfna, pastiche, Sherlock Holmes, short stories, the whole art of detection ·
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