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Mycroft Holmes – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse (2015)

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

February 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I don’t generally like the Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Sometimes it’s solid or good enough, but most of the time, there’s something missing. I tend to find this true of any kind of pastiche writing, especially when it’s mystery writers, but with Sherlock Holmes, there’s so much of it, and so much of it is bad. It’s obviously either novel or off-kilter or something about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writing this book, and of course, it’s endlessly endearing that he would be so much of a Holmes fan […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:75 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes ·
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Oh, Brother

October 28, 2016 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

This novel is a curious thing. Co-written by the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, the book focuses on the little-seen older, supposedly smarter brother of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. However, superfans of the Conan Doyle stories are unlikely to recognize the Mycroft Holmes presented here. Whereas in the stories Mycroft is middle-aged, portly, decidedly single, and constitutionally lazy. Abdul-Jabbar and Waterhouse instead conjure up a 23-year-old just embarking on a promising career in civil service, athletic, adventurous, and most surprisingly, engaged to be married and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Anna Waterhouse, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mycroft Holmes

Post by jeverett15 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Anna Waterhouse, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mycroft Holmes ·
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Elementary, my dear Douglas.

January 8, 2016 by BigRigBB 1 Comment

As an avid fan of anything basketball- playing, watching, discussing, daydreaming about playing in the NBA’s Celebrity All-Star game- picking a book by the NBA’s all-time leading scorer as my first Cannonball Read seemed like a no-brainer. But Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse’s Mycroft Holmes has as much basketball in it as Donald Trump has class, which is to say, none.  However, that doesn’t mean the authors are out of their depth. Abdul-Jabbar and Waterhouse spin an engaging tale of Sherlock’s older brother embarking on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: CBR8, historical fiction, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mycroft Holmes, mystery

Post by BigRigBB · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: CBR8, historical fiction, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mycroft Holmes, mystery ·
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