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Title: A Mute Boy, A Lost German Speaking Parrot, somethings afoot
Review: Michael Chabon has taken a simple story, much in the tone and feeling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and developed it around a title that can only be described as a "double entendre" of the most precarious type. ACD was well known for his marvelous descriptions of decorum and the wit of his characters. Chabon has name his most nervous character-Paniker, and calls his Holmes character-the old man, and beekeeper.Chabon's Holmes is almost like a walking obituary. His manners are of a different age (which he, Holmes, acknowledges), as are his many mended clothes. But from time to time, that bright light of genius shows, and the great man is back. Chabon's description of Holmes trying to communicate with the boy, is worth the whole story. It is so much like an old man trying to remember back 80 years, to a time that seems almost medieval.The solution, to say the least, is elementary.
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