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From: stratton@brl-tgr.ARPA (Sue Stratton )
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Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes again
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 17:37:31 EST
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> There is another one out called "The Case of the Ectoplasmic Man", where
> Holmes meets Houdini.  Why they have to keep shoveling historical figures
> into these, I'll never know...
> 
> Give it a C-.
> 
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I liked "Ectoplasmic Man" a little better than that, but that's neither
here nor there.  If you don't mind Holmes mixing with historical figures,
you might want to read another new one, "The Mycroft Memoranda" (available
from Magico or at the public library).  In it, Holmes meets and unmasks the
infamous "Jack the Ripper."  [Come to think of it, this might be a little
more fair than having him meet Houdini; after all, nothing says the greatest
detective had to meet the greatest magician of the day, but it makes sense
to think that the greatest detective sought the most horrible and elusive
criminal of the day...]

You might have a hard time swallowing the author's choice of identity for 
the Ripper (I know I did), but the book had other redeeming features.  May-
be a B-.

Karen Wilson  <kwilson@amsaa.ARPA>

P.S.  What about net.books.holmes?  Just a thought.............