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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: The Game's Afoot!
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 12:10:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 12:10:14 1985
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Just ran across another Holmes-related book for you completionists
out there -- this one hasn't been mentioned in the lists that circulated
on the net a while ago, and it is, shall we say, "different":

TROUBLE IN BUGLAND, A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries, by
William Kotzwinkle, profusely illustrated [sic] by Joe Servello.
(1983, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, ISBN 0-87923-472-5)

On the copyright page, what might be a quote from some sort of card-catalog
entry:

Summary: A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes,
displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

Now, you'd assume, from the subject, that this is a juvenile. However, the 
St. Louis Public Library has this shelved with the regular adult
mysteries, and, though the print is farily large, it doesn't appear to
be a children's book. The illustrations are quite good; all these insects
in Victorian clothing and surroundings. The "Watson" character is a
Dr. Hopper, who seems to indulge in cookery quite a bit [I don't recall
if Watson ever cooked anything in the original stories -- Mrs. Hudson
did all that, as far as I recall -- or did he ever display culinary
talents?].

The wife and I found this to be a rather charming and amusing book. I
recommend that any Holmesians out there, who are not deadly serious
about the Canon and the Great Detective, take a look at this.

Regards,
Will Martin

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