Title: A Great Disappointment for a Holmes Fan
Product review: Fullenkamp's "Flying Dutchman" has a mildly interesting story but is really too fantastical for a true Holmes tale. So much of it is not even remotely true to the Canon that it makes me think Fullenkamp had no intention of paying homage to the Canon. Among many other things, he introduces a element of religion that is not found in any of Doyle's writings. I was particularly unhappy that Fullenkamp writes that Holmes was emotionally and sexually abused by a woman teacher as a boy. Where does he get this stuff? The book has many of the problems with self-published books: misspellings, punctuation errors, use of wrong words, etc. Examples of the latter include "navel" for "naval," "yielded" for "wielded," and "exercised" for "exorcised." Unless you don't mind wasting a little money on this one, don't buy it.
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