Title: This story is lame!
Product review: True Sherlockians'll know immediately upon beginning to read this book that this story has no place in the Canon. It would never have occurred. This Australian writer attempts to depict the American frontier but fails miserably. The dialect doesn't ring true. The characters are one dimensional. Several times Holmes makes Watson the butt of his jokes. He even sells him down the river, something Holmes would never do. The attempts at humor border farce and are tiresome and overdone. It's formulaic and predictable. It falls short of delivering what Holmes fans have come to expect from stories written about him and Watson.
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