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Title: Disappointing Holmes novella, but...
Review: Val Andrews, a magician and photographer who has turned to writing has written a number of Holmes pastiches. This is the first I've read, and while disappointed, I'll give his work another try. This story finds Holmes pulling out of a depression and becoming involved in a long dormant murder of a young woman at a seaside resort, by way of his old acquaintance Irene Adler. Andrews hits on all the Holmesian cliches (Holmes' disguises fooling Watson, the arrogant local policeman, etc.) but doesn't fool the reader as Doyle so cleverly did with the mystery elements. As someone skilled in slight of hand in real life, perhaps Andrews will grow more skilled at making us look at the wrong suspect more convincingly in his next works. A good editor might help this writer to perfect Watson's unique narrative voice which here sounds right only part of the time. A pleasant read for an uncritical Holmes fan.
