
Moriarty
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Buy Now for $26.99
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Narrated by:
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Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Derek Jacobi
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By:
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Anthony Horowitz
About this listen
Sherlock Holmes is dead.
Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, Chase must hunt down this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace.
The game is afoot . . .
2014, Specsavers National Book Awards, Short-listed
©2014 Anthony Horowitz (P)2014 Orion Publishing Groupexcellant!
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A well worth it read particularly for homes fans
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I would read another Holmesian novel by Anthony Horowitz.
A well written addition to the Holmes omnibus
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what a twist!
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simply stunning
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Drivel
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I like AH because he’s clever, self aware, and does meta very well. I have raced through and at least partly guessed the endings to all of his adult mysteries. That’s not a boast, that’s testament to the skills of a novelist who leaves enough clues for a seasoned reader to pick up on while crafting plot and character that engages attention, heart, and mind, with humour, intelligence, bumbling humility and devastating wit.
All of that was absent in this book.
I cannot understand what Horowitz, his publisher, or the Holmes estate were thinking by releasing this. It barely relates to Holmes. The plot is complicated and boring. Meanwhile, we know there is a twist, but there are no meaningful clues, there’s no urgency or emotional connection with these characters that makes us care about getting there. I didn’t guess it because I didn’t care. I was waiting for it to get good and intriguing but it never did.
If you have to betray your characters, the trust of your reader, and spend over 40 minutes on post-action exposition to get your twist over the line, you may as well not bother. Since no more Holmes novels came after this, I assume everyone involved felt the same. What a shame.
I don’t know what this is, but it’s not Sherlock Holmes
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