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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Hardcover – January 1, 1999

Bestselling author Anne Perry and Conan Doyle's most recent biographer, Daniel Stashower, among others, contribute new stories that expand this tribute to Conan Doyle's immortal creation. Mystery editors Martin Greenberg and Carol-Lynn R"ssel Waugh specially commissioned original works by Stephen King, Michael Gilbert, John Lutz, Edward D. Hoch, Dorothy B. Hughes, Peter Lovesey, Lillian de la Torre, John Gardner, and others for the first edition. With over 100,000 copies sold since its publication for the centennial of the first Holmes story, "The Speckled Band," in 1987, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes has ranked in popularity only after the first Conan Doyle stories. "A first-rate collection . . . A splendid addition to Holmesiana, worthy of its honoree" - Publishers Weekly "
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.; New Edition (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0739408364
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0739408360
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds

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  • A. Sexton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Still a good book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2010
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    My sister had a copy of this book when we were in high school, but when she got married she took it with her. I loved being able to have my own copy. Some of the stories I'd remembered, but there were some that I got to fall in love with all over again. Written by many different authors, they all read like the original Sherlock Holmes stories. Definately worth buying!
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  • Jack Foote
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best New Sherlock Holmes Books
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2005
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    Recently, I have read many of the "new" collections with Sherlock Holmes as the main character. While all have been enjoyable reading, this seems to be one of the best volumes available in that the stories have preserved the role of the main characters in their familiar habitats but with original plots. While not uninteresting, the collections which have involved Holmes with historical incidents or those told from another perspective other than Watson's or attempts to implant a new theme or agenda have not been as satisfying.
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  • A & B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2016
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    Pretty good read.
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  • Patt O'Neil
    4.0 out of 5 stars Holmes/Watson fans to check out to decide for themselves how well it honors the duo.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2024
    I have owned this book for several years and I only recently read it just to find I had indeed read it before. This anthology was released in 1987 for the centennial anniversary of the first publication of a Sherlock Holmes story. The pastiches were vast in their interpretation of the Holmes/Watson duo, from classic to speculative. Even though they had excellent contributors, included Stephen King, not every story was what I would call a winner. If this book is still available, it is one that I recommend Holmes/Watson fans to check out to decide for themselves how well it honors the duo.
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  • Jack Maybrick
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting combination of schlock and home cooking
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2002
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's acquired disdain for his own renowned detective creation is legendary, and `tis said that when William Gillette wired him with the question, "May I marry Holmes?" (to a female character), Conan Doyle brusquely replied, "You may marry him or murder him or do what you like with him."
    But one must draw the line somewhere. And notwithstanding Mollie Hardwick's excellent paean to the legend of Sherlock Holmes at the head of this collection of short stories, I wonder whether even Conan Doyle could have stomached some of these literary assaults upon it.
    In "Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin", Dorothy Hughes presents us with a feminist Holmes and Watson who look forward to the day when women become doctors and scientists. Another swig of Women 100 Proof and Ms. Hughes would have had them lobbying from their 19th century perches for abortion on demand, free daycare, and a chocolate bar in the glove compartment of every SUV, a bottle of prozac in the pocket of every power suit.
    And even THIS atrocity barely holds its own, as an atrocity, against the contemporary setting of Joyce Harrington's "The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction", in which a delicate hippie-type Watson plays second fiddle to a ferocious liberated female Holmes - not only as "her" assistant but as "her " lover. Indeed, the story winds up with a broad hint of a rendezvous in the bedroom, but I think that this Watson will couple with this Holmes about as successfully as Tchaikovsky did with Antonina Milyukova.
    This book also has its share of short stories that do considerably more justice to the Sherlockian tradition, and the best of these are Barry Jones's "The Shadows on the Lawn", Edward D. Hoch's "The Return of the Speckled Band", and Stuart Kaminsky's "The Final Toast". The Jones story, in particular, is very chilling.
    But John Lutz's "The Infernal Machine" also deserves credit for craft and subtlety. The threat of an international conflagration and the new concept of the "horseless carriage" are crucial to the resolution of this story, and there's a passage in it where a young inventor asserts that in ten years, everyone in England will drive a horseless carriage. "Everyone?" Watson asks. "Come now!"
    Holmes laughs and says, "Not you, Watson, not you, I'd wager."
    How many readers realize that Lutz is paying homage to the last story in the Conan Doyle concordance, "His Last Bow", set on the eve of the first World War, in which Watson does indeed drive an automobile, in the guise of a chauffeur? Not many, I'd wager.
    It must have taken a lot of commendable restraint for Lutz to simply rely on his readers' perspicacity and to resist the sore temptation of finding a way to directly point to the Conan Doyle story.
    For that matter, Malcom Bell, the villain in the Kaminsky story, may be based upon Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Conan Doyle's medical instructors, who is said to have been the chief inspiration for Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes.
    Stephen King's contribution might be the cleverest, if not the best written. He apparently wrote his own Sherlock Holmes story in response to a challenge from the editors, but King's normal writing style doesn't quite click with the sober Watsonian chronicling presented by Conan Doyle.
    And King is usually a good researcher, but this skill fails him on at least two occasions. He presents us with several images from the Victorian Era that Conan Doyle withheld from delicate sensibilities, including orphans losing all the teeth out of their jaws in sulphur factories by the age of ten and cruel boys in the East End teasing starving dogs with food held out of reach.
    But the authentic Sherlock Holmes, having learned that Jory Hull was a painter and having deduced that he had no need of monetary support from his cruel father, would have further deduced - without asking Lestrade - that Jory probably gained his independence by painting professionally.
    And the authentic Holmes, as Watson says in the Conan Doyle classic, "A Study in Scarlet", has a good practical knowledge of British law. Stephen King is surely wrong to have Holmes ask Lestrade what sort of treatment the murder suspects might expect to receive under it.
    Still, we must be grateful to King for bringing to our attention the one case in the lexicon where Watson actually solves the mystery before Holmes does - and yes, it happens in a plausible manner. As Loren Estleman has pointed out, Holmes's brilliance wouldn't be appreciated by us as much if it were not for the buffer provided by the savvy but unremarkable earnestness of Watson`s narrative. We admire Holmes, but we empathize more with his Boswell, and it's wonderful to learn of a case in which Watson has his moment in the sunlight.
    This collection has its share of the good, the bad, the ugly, and the just plain silly (Peter Lovesey`s "The Curious Computer"). The reader is advised to judge each story on its own merits. Don't be too impressed with Dame Jean Conan Doyle's endorsement of the volume as a whole. But do ask, as another renowned English author once did, "What's in a name?"
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  • Myabba
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2015
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    Short stories not by Doyle.
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  • Hilde H. Helseth
    5.0 out of 5 stars buyer very pleased!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2014
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    Arrived safely, buyer very pleased!
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  • Acute Observer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Eighteen New Stories
    Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2012
    The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Ed. Greenberg

    This 1987 book was authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the daughter and heir of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on the 100th anniversary of "A Study in Scarlet". The stories created a standard for detective stories that solved crimes through observed clues. The stories in this book were created to pay tribute to Doyle's characters. The last three stories were added for this edition in 1999. These are the titles of each chapter and their authors. You should have first read "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" before reading this book.

    01) The Infernal Machine, John Lutz
    02) The Final Toast, Stuart M. Kaminsky
    03) The Phantom Chamber, Gary Alan Ruse
    04) The Return of the Speckled Band, Edward D. Hoch
    05) The Adventure of the Unique Holmes, Jon L. Breen
    06) Sherlock Holmes and "The Woman", Michael Harrison

    07) The Shadows on the Lawn, Barry Jones
    08) The Adventure of the Gowanus Abduction, Joyce Harrington
    09) Dr. and Mrs. Watson at Home, Loren D. Estleman
    10) The Two Footmen, Michael Gilbert
    11) Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin, Dorothy B. Hughes
    12) The Curious Computer, Peter Lovesey

    13) The Adventure of the Persistent Marksman, Lillian de la Torre
    14) The House that Jack Built, Edward Wellen
    15) The Doctor's Case, Stephen King
    16) The Second Treaty, Daniel Stashower
    17) The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard, Bill Crider
    18) Hostage to Fortune, Anne Perry

    The Afterword tells about "Moriarity and the Real Underworld", the character from "The Final Problem". Moriarity is the respectable man who controls the criminal class. [Is this a subtle reference to a ruling class?] John Gardner describes London in the 19th century and its various types of criminals. That great train robbery of 1855 inspired a movie in 1978. Criminals are still found in today's London. [Or in any big city.] This chapter omits any references to the financial swindles that continue in the big cities today. Why were there no cases that involved stock frauds and swindles? They must have been as common in London as in New York.
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  • Dave
    5.0 out of 5 stars Really good mixture of stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2016
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    There's quite a good mixture in this book. Most of the stories are traditional Holmes style, but there quite a few interesting takes on the concept. I haven't read any of these stories in other collections, so am really pleased with it.
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  • Amazon Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Truly disappointed
    Reviewed in India on May 9, 2017
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    The volume turned out to be a disappointment. With an exception of 2 - 3 stories rest all are mediocre. Lack the thrill that even simplest of the original Conan stories have.
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  • GnG
    3.0 out of 5 stars Do you like Sherlock?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2014
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    I have read all the originals, watched all the original Basil Rathbone films, all the Brett ones and a few other residual makes many many times. You could say that I quite like Sherlock Holmes stories. To that effect I would then say that if you are like me (like the stories a lot but definitely not a Holmes freak nor trainspotter and don't go to sherlock reunions or have a t-shirt with "Ooh Dr Watson" on the back of it) then you WILL be able to tell the differnce between these stories and Conan Doyles writings. If you are not then you won't notice. Some of these stories within this book I found a bit weird. Here endeth the rant.
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  • Mrs W Waugh
    3.0 out of 5 stars Keeping Sherlock Holmes Alive
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2014
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    Its a good enough book but it just lacks the hand of Conan Doyle but its worth reading even if it just keeps Sherlock Holmes books to carry on,......
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