Sherlock
Holmes Will Never Die
Fox’s new TV show about Houdini and
Doyle takes a slightly different turn on the fascination for all things Sherlock
and extends it to Sherlock’s creator and Houdini. While these two men did know
each other, the show turns the relationship into another Sherlock and Watson. It
works for me as does some of the spin off books that continue to be produced
each year featuring Holmes or relatives or even just his address. A few books worth
mentioning are:
“The Baker Street Jurors” by
Michael Robertson. This is the fifth book in the Baker Street Letters which
revolves around the attorneys who reside at 221B Baker Street and receive
letters from people hoping for help from Sherlock Holmes. When a letter arrives
for Holmes asking for help in investigating who is killing jurors in the case
of the famous cricketer accused of murdering his wife, Reggie and Nigel Heath take
on the case.
“Mycroft Holmes” by Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. This stand-alone novel has Sherlock’s smarter
older brother Mycroft trying to help his university friend whose family is in
danger in Trinidad.
“Art in the Blood” by Bonnie
MacBird. This book came out in October, 2015 and is the first in a new series
about Sherlock Holmes. In this novel, Sherlock is hired to find a beautiful
French singer’s missing illegitimate son.
“Sherlock Holmes and the Servants
of Hell” by Paul Kane. This stand-alone novel finds Holmes and Watson investigating
the disappearance of a man from a locked room.
“The Murder of Mary Russell” by
Laurie R. King. This is the fourteenth book in the Mary Russell and Sherlock
Holmes series which came out in May.
