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Sherlock Holmes in Pursuit Paperback – Illustrated, April 15, 2013

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An impossible poisoning case... A master thief discovers something nasty in a chimney... A murder is committed on Baker Street in broad daylight, and the culprit is captured, but one man still has his doubts. Six new cases featuring Victorian England's greatest detective, these mysteries are sure to delight Holmes fans old and new.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MX Publishing
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780924100
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780924106
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.43 x 8.5 inches

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  • Judith H. Tomasulo
    5.0 out of 5 stars I believe in Sherlock Holmes...and Matthew Elliott
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014
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    I can't get enough of Sherlock Holmes and therefore appreciate another book by Matthew J. Elliott. His book, The Immortals, made me a fan forever and these stories did not disappoint. The dialogue is fun and smart, e.g., this snippet of a convo between Mycroft and Sherlock - Mycroft: "....you once asked me if such an establishment existed and I denied the fact." Sherlock: "True, but as you did so, I observed a slight ripple in your snifter of brandy." Spot on! So grab your snifter, curl up in a comfy chair and enjoy.
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  • AcerAcer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not New Material, But Mostly Good Stories
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013
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    Just a heads up -- if you bought and read "The Legends of Sherlock Holmes (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)" by MJ Elliott, then you've read three out of the six stories in this book. Elliott's previous book no longer appears to be for sale on amazon, but you might have picked it up back in September of 2011 when it was published. Even before that, most of these stories were either anthologized in other books or published in various mystery magazines.

    The first story, "The Adventure of The Patient Adversary," is in my mind the best. The storyline and the "feel" to it was the most like something that you would find in canon. A acquaintance of Watson's from their university days begs for Holmes's help, because he is being slowly poisoned by a very clever killer. When confronted, the poisoner essentially dares Holmes to prove it. For me, this story was worth the price of the entire book, even though I'd already read half the stories.

    "The Adventure of The Mocking Huntsman" was previously published in Elliott's book, The Legends of Sherlock Holmes (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) and in "Sherlock Magazine" #55. A killer calling himself The Huntsman is apparently stalking one man to avenge a past misdeed, but ends up killing another, accidentally or otherwise.

    In "The Adventure of The Forgetful Assassin," a memorable story, Watson's old friend Thurston is murdered almost under Watson's very eyes. Watson gives chase and catches the killer, only to watch in dismay as Holmes works to clear the man, who claims he doesn't remember doing the deed. This was published not only in the author's previous book but also in David Stuart Davies's anthology, "The Game's Afoot."

    "The Adventure of The Honourable Cracksman" is another excellent story. A mysterious client tells Holmes and Watson that there is a dead body lodged in the chimney of a house he had been planning to rob. When the two arrive at the house, there is a dead body in the dining room, and Holmes has to tell the police that there is also one in the chimney. The story takes a 180 degree turn when Holmes figures out that the deaths have a connection to one of the British government's researchers working with experimental poison gas, but Mycroft Holmes refuses to believe the researcher is guilty. This was published in "Sherlock Magazine," #63.

    "The Adventure of The Hanging Tyrant" is the longest story in the collection, but sadly, the most problematic. Understanding the plot depends on your being extremely familiar with "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," which itself is a complex story. A further difficulty is that parts of "Tyrant" are told in a reverse manner, where Watson mentions something in the present that makes little sense until later in the story, when that earlier reference is revealed as being something that happened in the past. You see the difficulty! The story jumps around from one point in time to another so much that sometimes it's hard to tell where we are in the time line. I don't even know if the author himself was keeping track of what was going on because he repeated the same phrase, word for word, in two places without acknowledging that it had happened before. Watson affirms that he will move back in with Holmes following The Great Hiatus, and Holmes replies, "I am very glad of it. I did not rise from the dead, so to speak, in order to resume a solitary existence." Then at the very end of the story Holmes is worried that Watson wants to marry the client, and when Watson promises that there will be no second Mrs. Watson (a pointlessly coy joke by the author), Holmes says, "I am delighted to hear it," and then reiterates, "I did not rise from the dead, so to speak, in order to resume a solitary existence," and he says this without any acknowledgement that he is aware he had used those exact words before. I suspect the author was experimenting with where to put the phrase, and then forgot to remove one. Murky and seriously overcomplicated, this is not a well-crafted story.

    "The Extraordinary Lodger" was published in "Sherlock Magazine" #52 and also in the author's previous book. Mrs. Hudson brings a new friend to Holmes for help. The friend is a maid for a man who appears to be living in fear of his tenant, who has for all purposes taken over the whole house, relegating the owner to the den.
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  • ciak
    5.0 out of 5 stars Seeking Answers
    Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2025
    Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in these six stories come across murder and quite a bit of misdirection and of course Scotland Yard stumbling into solutions and misdirection. Love Them!!!
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  • Tina Presley
    5.0 out of 5 stars brother
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013
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    My brother is a Holmes nut. He will love this book. He tries to read all he can ge his hands on. I buy most of them for him...
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  • No BS guy
    4.0 out of 5 stars Some reasonably interesting Sherlock tales
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2013
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    These were some reasonably interesting Sherlock tales. My favorite was "The Honorable Cracksman" where a house burgler discovers a dead body and contacts Holmes to have him solve the case.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2017
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    loved the book arrived in great condition
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  • Raven
    5.0 out of 5 stars These have a classic ring!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2016
    Sherlock Holmes In Pursuit by Matthew J Elliot

    My thanks to Steve and Timi Emecz at MX Publications for the review copy of this excellent book!

    This is an anthology of short stories by the author.

    “The Adventure of the Patient Adversary” is a tale of revenge. Watson’s friend Angus Moleworth is being slowly poisoned to death. There is little doubt as to the identity of the murderer, but how he is managing to poison Moleworth from a distance is the real mystery here, after all the threat was made years ago, and Moleworth has no servants that have been with him for more than three years…

    “The Adventure of the Mocking Huntsman” begins with attorney Aldous Cadwallader approaching Holmes for his client, Ambrose Scullion. Mr. Scullion has lost his grandson, Gideon to a murderer. The murderer sent a note signed enigmatically as “The Huntsman.” It seems years ago that Ambrose Scullion owned a mine in Nobrough that collapsed, killing 70 men including the father of Gideon Scullion. Apparently, people are seeking revenge—or are they?

    “The Adventure of the Forgetful Assassin” sadly is the story of the murder of Watson’s friend Charles Thurston. The reader will remember that Watson often played billiards with Thurston at his club. Alexander Hydell is arrested for the crime, caught in the act, but he has no memory of the event whatsoever…

    “The Adventure of the Honorable Cracksman” has Holmes actually working for a criminal. While trying to burglarize a house this “Cracksman” as he prefers to be called has discovered a dead body up a chimney. When Holmes and Watson reach the house, Inspector Lestrade is already there with a body in an armchair and has no knowledge of the one up the chimney…

    “The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant” involves a lot of the same circumstances as WIST. A widow has people trying to inspect her house for papers relating to Don Juan Murillo, the Tiger of San Pedro, AKA the Hanging Tyrant. They are going to have their way by trickery, bribery, or whatever it takes.

    “The Adventure of the Extraordinary Lodger” involves a man who appears to be a blackmailer. His host, Theodore Hartwell, has even given up his bedroom to this lodger and sleeps on a cot in his untidy study. Hartwell’s maid, Katie Whitehall goes to Baker Street, encouraged by Mrs. Hudson, to seek Holmes’ help.

    All of the stories could easily have been written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself! I found them excellent reading, and I hope that Mr. Elliott gives us more along the same lines!

    Five Stars Plus!

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  • Fercoq
    3.0 out of 5 stars Bel essai mais lamentable support
    Reviewed in France on February 14, 2014
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    Une suite de nouvelles d'inégale qualité mais dans l'ensemble bien dans l'esprit du sujet. Le style est agréablement watsonien. MM Holmes et Watson sont fidèles aux originaux. Mais l'édition est minable: Coquilles éparses et surtout pagination aléatoire. Certaines lignes de texte sont deux fois plus courtes que d'autres faute de vouloir couper les mots en fin de ligne. On croit changer de chapitre, mais la phrase continue plus loin.
    MX Publishing édite ses bouquins comme on va....
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  • Deiseach
    3.0 out of 5 stars Middling Holmesian pastiche
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2013
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    Regarding the tales themselves, they are not bad plot-wise but the presentation of the relationship between Holmes and Watson jars. This is a post-Reichenbach era, when Holmes is constantly alluding to possibility of retirement. The Watson we get here is ambivalent about his place as Holmes' colleague; he both feels undervalued and valueless. There's an intriguing hint in some of the stories that Watson has taken up with Holmes again more out of desperation and aimlessness after his wife's death, and that having moved on in the three years of Holmes' absence, neither he nor Holmes can slot back into life as it was before, but we don't get that developed enough.

    I easily identified the Tolkien and Hornung references, yet they are curiously out of place: there's no reason, except as a private in-joke, to do things like calling an inn "The Prancing Pony". The Raffles references at least fit broadly into the context and timeframe. As for the sinister Chinese professor, I felt he was too much a cut-rate Dr. Fu-Manchu.

    However, these are not the worst Holmes pastiches I've read, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, I can say that if Mr Elliott cares to write a full-length novel exploring the changes when Holmes returns (both in him and Watson, and in the ending of the 19th century as the social and technological progress brings us ever closer to the First World War), the ambivalence and sense of displacement Watson feels when trying to recreate the 'glory days' by returning to Holmes and Baker Street, and the compromises and pragmatism, leading to cheating justice, that the British Government (as personified in Mycroft Holmes) carry out where political gain is concerned, then I would be very interested to read it.
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  • lambo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great new stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2014
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    This selection in my opinion is one of the better collections from modern authors, I felt the plots wrer mostly very good and the atmosphere of the stories felt right. I have some iffy modern collections in the past ,but to me this book was most enjoyable
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