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Sherlock Holmes? Last Case: The Brighton Murders Paperback – August 13, 2013

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In 1914 Conan-Doyle penned his final Sherlock Holmes tale, which featured him uncovering a German spy ring scheming to sabotage the British war effort. Since then all sorts of Holmes tales have appeared in novels, movies, TV recreations, etc. But in none of them, save for Conan-Doyle’s final effort, do we find either Holmes or Watson aging normally. This is sad. Holmes and Watson do not resonate well when translated into a different milieu. There always seems to be something a trifle forced in the doing. This tale is intended as a tribute to the memory of a great contributor to the art of detective story fiction. Here we find the pair living in Dorking after having served in Naval Intelligence and a field hospital in France during the war. A series of brutal murders of young girls taking place in and around Brighton in the early 1920’s cause the two of them to emerge from their retirement and take to the field one last time. The conditions and ambience of the British people in the ten years immediately following the war are carefully researched. The names of existing streets, restaurants and buildings present at the time are used throughout in order to convey an actual feeling for the environment. Both Holmes and Watson are treated as aged gentlemen in their 70’s. Neither of them is in great physical condition. They tire more easily, they dread the loss of their mental acuity and are plagued with the fear of winding up as shambling wrecks in some sanitarium. Above all they are bored. After all, when one has eaten the same Stilton cheese virtually every day for more than half a century it seems to be asking too much to have either of them exclaim, “This is excellent Stilton today!” The result is an unusual, but I hope enjoyable Sherlock Holmes book which even Conan-Doyle would approve of. To this I must add my sincere gratitude to the good people of the Sussex County Library in Horsham for the unstinting assistance they provided in supplying me with a multitude of detailed maps dating to the 1920’s as well as their patient, and I suspect often amused, correction of my unconscious Americanisms appearing in my first drafts.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 13, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492160458
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492160458
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.37 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.82 x 9 inches

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George W. Harper is a polymath who lives in Arlington, Washington with his wife of 56 years. In addition to a new Sherlock Holmes novel he has also published a text on the Yezidees and a science fiction novel with Doubleday in 1983. His body of work includes many astronomical and sci-fi articles and short stories. Completed works on a history of the Hebrew people and a short text on cosmology are on track to be published in 2014

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  • Drstatz
    3.0 out of 5 stars Scratching My Head
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2014
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    This was an interesting outing. I concur with another reviewer that the text, in italicized format, was extremely annoying. Possibly because I am a retired English on both secondary and university levels, I have seen too many papers with one and one-half spacing to wish to have to endure it for an entire novel. The story itself is a thriller and well told although considering the amount of time the book spent talking about psychology, the plot was often shoved aside while Holmes entered into Freud's realms. Sort of Conan Doyle meets Dr Phil. Just my viewpoint but a fair amount of text could have been deleted without hurting the quality of the story even a little bit. Possibly a view that may be unwarranted or even cruel (although certainly not intended to be so) is wondering if the writer was paid by the word.

    In short, a dynamite story although you have to crawl through a fair amount of underbrush.
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  • AcerAcer
    2.0 out of 5 stars A 5-Star Story Gone Astray...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013
    Let me get this out of the way right now and then I will try not to refer to it again no matter how distracting I found it: this entire book, from the byline on, is typeset in italics. (In other words, the only roman type in the whole book was the title.) I hardly have the words to describe how distracting this is. You keep thinking you're reading a flashback and any second now it will revert to the present and roman type. Or maybe you'll think you're reading Watson's thoughts and soon the action will start up. But no...and the entire book is like that. I don't know if this was on purpose or an accident, but either way, it was a mistake. As it will be very easy to correct, I sincerely hope the author will do so. The purpose of italics is to emphasize a phrase or words, to make them stand out from the rest. Italics are not meant to be used for body copy.

    That aside, this is an excellent mystery. Using nothing but his deductive logic, his magnifying glass and his sharp eyes, Holmes tracks down and captures a prolific serial killer. (And happily, the author is aware enough not to use the actual term, "serial killer," which wasn't coined until the 1960s or '70s.) Holmes performs a number of exceptional deductions during the course of the story. I would go so far as to call the basic plot brilliant. The murders, Holmes hot on the trail, the solution...

    The story takes place several years after World War One and essentially begins when Watson decides to find Holmes, with whom he has lost touch during the war years. He shows up unannounced, but Holmes opens the door to him with these words: "Watson, how good of you to come. I've been expecting you for the past month...The room upstairs on the right is yours. I'll have the rest of your gear sent down immediately." And just like that, they move back in together. Seemed to me the book was off to a great start right there.

    Sadly, however, author George W. Harper attributes to Holmes some painfully out-of-character behavior. He realizes this, and he defends his choice to have Holmes (and Watson, actually) behave differently than we are used to in his Afterword. I will leave it to you to decide whether you agree with his reasoning or not. I personally do not find his arguments in the least convincing, and I much prefer to read about Sherlock Holmes rather than to read about why an author would want to change Sherlock Holmes. In any case, the uncharacteristic behavior takes up enough space in the book that I consider it nothing but padding; an attempt to turn what could have been a tightly-knit novella into a disjointed full-length novel. Holmes describing his childhood in painful detail to total strangers? Holmes spouting forth (extremely simplistically) for many pages on the religious, economic and social origins of the psychotic killer? Holmes confiding his feelings about Irene Adler to Watson thirty-two years after the fact? And then there's Watson's bizarre infatuation for a married woman, who, he becomes convinced, is his true soul mate. None of this worked for me.

    I found this to be a 5-star story for which I am deducting 3 stars for the out-of-character behavior being nothing but padding which really slowed the story down.

    This title is available for the Prime lending program, which is how I came to read it.
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  • Sea diver
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good read.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2013
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    Interesting concept, good story easy to read and consuming enough to read in a day. Great by the fire on a wet sunday
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