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The lost adventures of Sherlock Holmes Hardcover – January 1, 1993

by Ken Greenwald (Author)
Stories adapted from the original Sherlock Holmes radio broadcasts
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barnes & Nobel
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1993
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 199 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1566195403
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1566195409
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds

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  • henry reposa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Two thumbs up!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2017
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    Great book. Love the book and the OTR shows.
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  • Georgia Homestead
    5.0 out of 5 stars Memories of days gone by
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018
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    Nice purchase brings back old memories.
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  • RGM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2014
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    I LOVED THE BOOK. I LIKE ALMOST ALL S.H. NOVELS
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  • Kevin Killian
    2.0 out of 5 stars Should have stayed lost.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2010
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    I went into this book with high hopes, based in part on the number of four star reviews on the Amazon site, and in equal part because I had so enjoyed THE CASEBOOK OF GREGORY HOOD, the brand new collection of 40s radio scripts by the same team responsible for the original stories that Ken Greenwald adapted here (Denis Green and Anthony Boucher). But oh my, is this book a disappointment! Well, I suppose these stories bear the same relationship to the Green-Boucher scripts that those lousy Charles Osborne adaptations of Agatha Christie's plays do to Christie's plays themselves. In other words, the script can be great, but beware a hack making it into a prose narrative, and that unfortunately is what has happened here.

    Why all the good reviews? Reading closer, I can see that half of the goodwill this book garnished must be due to the esteem people have for the original broadcasts with Basil rathbone and Nigel Bruce. But their star presences are nowhere to be seen in this doggerel. You can barely make out what might have been a good plot, because author Greenwald is so incompetent. Yes, there are one or two exceptions ("The Adventure of the Iron Box" has some genuine bafflers in it), but Greenwald isn't even good at grammar: the Iron Box story begins, "My old friend Sir Walter Dunbar had asked Holmes and I to spend a few days with him." Well, maybe the locution "Holmes and I" sounded more British to him. I know Boucher and Green committed so such solecism. And how about a journey to "Gretney Green"? Yeah, that sounds like a place.

    But even the plots that we can glimpse through the veil of Greenwald aren't very interesting. "The Girl with the Gazelle" is like a warmed-over Irene Adler story. "The Case of the Amateur Mendicants" is like "The Red Headed League" shaken up with the fizz removed. In most of the stories, as soon as we find out what the crime is, we know instantly the identity of the criminal.

    People who admire these stories must either not be reading them, or else they have a high tolerance for badly-written fan fiction. I'll read anything set on Baker Street myself, but Archons of Athens, I thought I'd pass out while reading the "Notorious Canary Trainer" and "The Camberwell Poisoners," That's how dismal they are. The period-style illustrations bring a needed charm and intrigue to the book, so 2 stars.
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  • DDJTJ
    5.0 out of 5 stars A LOST TREASURE FOUND!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2019
    I have always been a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes & Dr.Watson! Whenever I come across a new book of Sherlock Holmes I quickly grab it. When I came across THE LOST ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES BY KEN GREENWALD I grabbed it up and held on tight!

    THE LOST ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is comprised of short stories taken from the bygone era of a yesteryears radio series.
    Included in the book we even get to find out a little bit about Holmes and Watson's life after Baker Street!
    Well written and edited, you dont have to read Mr.Greenwald's introduction to know he is also a true Holmes/Watson fan (Sherlockian? Baker Street Irregular?)

    If you are a Sherlockian fan or just like a book of very good short story mysteries, then I hope you will give THE LOST ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES BY KEN GREENWALD a read.
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  • Jack Maybrick
    5.0 out of 5 stars "It shall always be Sherlock Holmes and Victorian England"
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2003
    This is a very enjoyable collection of stories based on scripts from the original radio plays.
    Basil Rathbone was a "softer" version of Holmes. The original Sherlock could be hard and unfeeling - a machine as Watson often describes him.
    That probably didn't play to audiences so, by comparison, Rathbone is just mildly eccentric. He's far more tolerant of the inability of Watson and others to keep up with him than is the original Sherlock.
    It's a little as if someone had found the dichotomy betwen Hamlet's magnificent spirit and his fatal flaw disconcerting and had rewritten Shakespeare's classic to make Hamlet just a typical troubled young adult struggling with newfound freedom and responsibilties.
    And Nigel Bruce's bumbling Watson is largely comic relief and equally unlike the original Conan Doyle version.
    But at least the original radio playwrights kept the two heroes in late 19th century/early 20th century England. I think that most of the movies that Rathbone and Bruce made were set during World War II. I mean, no one could be a worthier contender against the Nazis than Sherlock Holmes, but still...
    The story of how Holmes and Watson first meet Moriarty is unconvincing, as is the portrayal of Moriarty, and equally unconvincing is how, in "The April Fool's Adventure", Holmes finds all of the clues that the pranksters leave for him to find but doesn't see how they were intended to point to himself as the culprit. His inability to recognize himself is bewildering, and he must have forgotten to use his magnifying glass to look at the calendar.
    But so what? When a classic is changed for mass market effect, the result is often disastrous, but not so here.
    The bottom line is that all of the stories are very enjoyable. For all of the merit of the original Conan Doyle classics, they were written as a disagreeable chore to satisfy the public's demand for a character that Conan Doyle himself had quickly grown tired of.
    These stories were crafted with a lot of love and care, and that might be why the two main characters themselves draw more affection than do the original versions.
    Our debt to Conan Doyle for bringing us Sherlock Holmes is incalculable, but equally incalculable is our debt to his contemporaries for forcing the author to resurrect the great detective from (what we were led to believe was) the bottom of Reichenbach Falls. Perhaps the public also deserves credit for rescuing Holmes's humanity as well as his life from the clutches of his original creator, and perhaps this kinder, gentler Holmes is an example of this second rescue effort.
    And speaking of Holmes's life, the last story in this collection provides a plausible explanation (entirely consistent with the Conan Doyle concordance) of why Sherlock Holmes cannot die. Literally. That's worth the price of admission, in and of itself.
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  • Dave
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely recommended to fans of the original stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2017
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    Definitely recommended to fans of the original stories. One of the better 'Holmes by other authors' books I've read. Every story is well worth reading.
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