Sherlockian by Graham Moore (Epub)

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Hurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, The Sherlockian weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but “elementary.” In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective’s next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning-crowds sported black armbands in grief-and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had “murdered” Holmes in “The Final Problem,” he resurrected him. Though the writer kept detailed diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden change of heart. After his death, one of his journals from the interim period was discovered to be missing, and in the decades since, has never been found…. Or has it? When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, The Baker Street Irregulars, he never imagines he’s about to be thrust onto the hunt for the holy grail of Holmes-ophiles: the missing diary. But when the world’s leading Doylean scholar is found murdered in his hotel room, it is Harold-using wisdom and methods gleaned from countless detective stories-who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.

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Editorial Reviews: Review Moore spins engaging parallel detective stories.―Entertainment WeeklyThrilling…a ripping good story that’s packed with loads of Doyle and Holmes trivia.―USA Today”It must be said of Graham Moore that he has his methods. Ingenious and amusing ones, too. You will enjoy their elucidation even if you are not a committed Sherlockian. The game’s afoot!”―Christopher Hitchens, author of Hitch-22″What irresistible fun! As the literary intrigue deepens, with Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and some brainy Sherlock Holmes buffs as partners in crime, you don’t have to be Holmes to deduce that The Sherlockian is a serpentine delight for anyone who loves mystery and historical suspense.”―Rupert Holmes, Edgar-award winning creator of The Mystery of Edwin Drood”Sly self-awareness keeps THE SHERLOCKIAN smart and agile, [and] it’s possible to enjoy this book’s laughable affectations and still be seduced by them… it is anchored by Mr. Moore’s self-evident love of the rules that shape good mystery fiction and the promises on which it must deliver.” ―Janet Maslin, New York Times”A truly terrific mystery … Witty and breezy, yet [it]manages to explore the toll taken on Doyle by having created a character so beloved that the creation obscures the creator … For a first book – actually, for any book – this is impressive. Among its virtues is a feel for the gas-lamp Victorian world. As we read, we understand Doyle’s impatience with his world as well as [Harold] White’s yearning to return to it … The Escher like patterning of real life on fictional reconstruction, complete with murder, related rissoles and tentative love story all come off without a hitch. For mystery lovers, this book is a treat. For Sherlock Holmes lovers, it is indispensible.” ―David Wolpe, The Huffington Post”The tales of Conan Doyle and White, told in alternating chapters, make up “The Sherlockian,” Graham Moore’s entertaining debut novel. Both mysteries are well crafted, with gratifying and amusing nods toward the conflation of Conan Doyle and his most famous literary creation … exemplary weaving of historical fact and fiction … This is a novel clearly written with great affection, not just for Conan Doyle and Holmes, but their 21st-century fans as well.”―Associated Press”The problem with Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories is that there aren’t enough of them. Fans try to fill the gap with spin-offs, some of which work better than others. This engaging riff on the familiar themes by first-novelist Moore is one of the best . . . Moore spins his tale in prose that shifts easily from exposition to pathos to sly comedy . . . Mystery fans should love the mix of historical fiction and contemporary puzzle-solving. And Sherlockians? Try keeping them away.”―Booklist (starred review)”Moore’s fiction provides a shrewd take on the noted author and his legendary scion.”―KirkusThe tales merge in a grand finale that, looking back, seems inevitable. The Sherlockian on your Christmas list will love this book. So will any mystery lover, even one who has never read a Sherlock Holmes story, if there be such an unfortunate creature.―Dallas Morning NewsClever…insightful…ingenious…a testament to the power of storytelling.―South Florida Sun-SentinalThe mystery is gripping, and Moore has a feel for the transitional nature of Conan Doyle’s era.―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewMoore is well-steeped in Holmes lore but savvy enough as a writer to keep the reader’s interest with the parallel, and eventually intersecting, plots.―Los Angeles TimesRequired reading.―New York PostBrilliantly executed: a must-read for admirers of historical fiction, Sherlock Holmes, and intellectual mysteries…This debut manages to be both highly original as well as deeply reverential to its literary sources. It’s difficult to find a new spin on Sherlock Holmes, but Graham Moore has pulled it off with flying colors.―Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante ClubCombines good pacing with an engaging plot, and its ample dose of Holmes quotes, errata, and flair for humor have enough to keep anyone from an initiate to a dedicated Sherlockian on the hook…the kin of everyman adventure that one can’t help but enjoy.―BookPageSuspenseful…a first-time novelist fictionalizes real-life events to write a compelling mystery.―TheDailyBeast.comMoore spins a tale full of characters that make his first book a fun read…I found myself getting pulled into each story simultaneously since Moore deftly parallels the action taking places in both stories.―BookReporter.comMoore does an excellent job of making his characters and settings feel real, using his thorough knowledge of the Holmes stories to good effect…Any reader curious about Sherlock Holmes won’t be able to resist following up with the originals.―Library JournalFun and games with Sherlock Holmes is a never-ending pursuit, as THE SHERLOCKIAN proves.―Pittsburgh Post-GazetteExciting, clever, and convoluted (as all mysteries are)…This is a book for Sherlock Holmes fans, Conan Doyle fans, Stoke fans, and anyone who likes a good mystery/detective story.―Tucson Citizen About the Author Graham Moore is a New York Times bestselling novelist and Academy Award winning screenwriter. His screenplay for The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, won both an Oscar and a WGA Award in 2015, and was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. The film received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Graham’s first novel, The Sherlockian (2010), was translated into 15 languages. It was called “sublime” and “clever” and “delightful” by the New York Times, “savvy” and “entertaining” by the Los Angeles Times, and lots of other nice things as well.

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⭐I read Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night and was riveted from beginning to end. As someone who has always enjoyed most anything related to Sherlock Holmes, Victorian London, and the turn of the century, I expected to be equally riveted by The Sherlockian.The novel alternates two mysteries—one in the present—and one in the past. It is well written, but I couldn’t connect with the main characters, Harold and Sarah, who try to solve the murder of a member of the Sherlockians (a group dedicated to Sherlock Holmes). The murderer made off with a diary that belonged to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Holy Grail to the Sherlockians.For me, the story worked best when it focused on the mystery in the past with Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker trying to solve the murders of several young women. The author ties both mysteries together in the end, with the last quarter of the providing the most riveting reading, but overall I struggled a bit to get through this one, and that surprised me. Graham Moore is an excellent writer, and The Last Days of Night is one of my favorite books, but I felt like something was lacking in this one. 3.5 Stars.

⭐The Game’s Afoot! A Foot?By Bob Gelms The Sherlockian is Graham Moore’s debut novel. Subsequently, he has published his second book and it’s as if he has hit TWO grand slam home runs in the same game. They are both just delightful. The Sherlockian intertwines two mysteries, one drawing from the past and one in the present day, that share a common element. The first half involves Dr. Doyle and his ever-popular creation, Sherlock Holmes. By the way, did you know that before his writing career took off Doyle was a medical doctor? Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle also studied ophthalmology and he was a botanist of some renown. It appears that Conan was his middle name, not the first half of a hyphenated last name. Anyway… Moore reminds us that in 1886, Dr. Doyle published his first story featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Everyone went wild. It was a hit worldwide. After about seven years of the Sherlock Holmes cacophony blaring in his ears, Dr. Doyle made a momentous decision. In The Final Problem, published in 1893, Doyle had Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty, Holmes’ nemesis, struggle mightily before dragging each other off the cliff above Reichenbach Falls and to their deaths. Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Doyle was an instant pariah. People shouted awful things at him on the street and at restaurants. His publisher hated him, people in London wore black arm bands, and it almost, on occasion, turned violent. In The Sherlockian, Graham Moore recounts a folktale which involves two heartbroken, confused, old British ladies. These ladies were huge Holmes fans and got it into their heads that he was a real consulting detective. They read that Dr. Doyle had “killed off” Holmes so the two of them marched right into Scotland Yard and demanded that Dr. Doyle be arrested and brought up on charges of murder. Everything was patiently explained and the two old ladies went home still angry at Dr. Doyle. (It just might be true but I have to say I don’t believe this.) Holmes fans call the ensuing eight years the Hiatus. By all accounts Dr. Doyle was writing wonderful historical novels during that time that the public mostly ignored. They wanted Holmes and Watson. Holmes had made Dr. Doyle the wealthiest and most famous writer in the world. (I don’t feel the least bit sorry for him.) Dr. Doyle was a dedicated diarist; he wrote every day. During the Hiatus he filled four little books with his musings. The fourth one, which presumably held his thoughts about bringing Holmes back from the dead, went missing after Dr. Doyle died. It was manically sought after but disappeared for 100 years. Part two of our story moves, now, to the present day. Please remember at all times, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” It almost always works. A collection of rabid Holmes’ fans started a group in 1934 where they could fawn over everything Holmes. They called themselves The Baker Street Irregulars. It started out as a fan club but, amazingly, it attracted a number of scholars who wrote pithy articles published in significant journals. The Irregulars in the USA included Harry Truman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Isaac Asimov. To be a member you had to be invited, so when Harold White, who was kind of a geeky literary researcher, got the invitation to join the original BSI, he just about jumped out his shoes. Alex Cale was the pre-eminent BSI. He was rich beyond imagination, didn’t have or need a job, had plenty of time on his hands, and was obsessed with Dr. Doyle’s missing diary. Its value had gone stratospheric during the missing years. If found and sold at auction, the estimates of the selling price were in the area of ten million dollars. Mr. Cale announces that he has found the diary and wants to make a presentation at the BSI conference. “Holmes-world” was flirting with apoplexy. So, what could go wrong? Well, you know someone has to be murdered and who do you suppose is the most likely candidate to get dead? Yep, Alex Cale. He is late for his presentation and a group of Irregulars, including Harold White, go to Cale’s room and discover the body. Written on the wall in the blood of the murderer is a single word, “ELEMENTARY.” Eventually, someone says, wait for it, “The game’s afoot.” (I couldn’t have resisted either.)The diary is gone and Alex Cale is dead. Harold White decides to solve the mystery using all of the techniques Sherlock Holmes would use. After all, Harold has read all four novels and the 56 short stories. What follows is a Sherlock Holmes story without Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Moore has hit the bull’s eye, the nail on the head, and a story to delight and involve you. I’ll admit it, I am one of those Sherlockians and I just loved The Sherlockian by Graham Moore. We have come to the end and this is where Sherlock Holmes says to his faithful biographer, “Watson, the needle.”

⭐Anyone hoping to enjoy this as much as the original Sherlock Holmes stories, or the many fine entertainments that have grown out of those stories, will probably be disappointed. Graham Moore has written a double mystery, one involving a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast attempting to solve the murder of a colleague; the other involving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the hunt for an apparent serial killer of young women. Unfortunately, the book is filled with flaws. The plot meanders. There’s nothing really great at stake. None of the characters are very likeable, making it tough to care what happens (although the A.C. Doyle character does improve as the story progresses). And the writing itself is not very good: filled with clunky and unnecessary imagery as well as logical inconsistencies that kept pulling me out of the story. Most disappointing, the novel has none of the Holmes style, that brilliant intellectual swashbuckling that so many have come to love and admire. So, if you’re looking for something truly reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, I’d give this a pass and maybe re-read Sir Arthur’s stories instead.

⭐An interesting set of interlocking mysteries, one set in 1900, another set in 2010. The former concerns Arthur Conan Doyle and his buddy Bram Stoker, and the latter concerns a Sherlockian (a Holmes superfan, for those not in the know) searching for Doyle’s missing diary that just happens to cover the events under discussion. It is a treat for Sherlockians, though you may see some of the things coming. It is a good enough mystery for non-Sherlockians. The only problem I had was the ending. As a historian, I abhor the destruction of documents, even ones that might shed bad light on Doyle. All-in-all, pretty good. Wouldn’t mind if it was made into a movie, either of both story strands or just the Doyle-Stoker mystery.

⭐Good story if you are into Sherlock Holmes — and you wouldn’t be reading it if you weren’t. This novel is actually comprised of two virtually independent mysteries: one involving Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker, set at the turn of the century, and one involving a modern day mystery solved by a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. I loved learning about Arthur Conan Doyle, but the characterization came across as very one-dimensional, and indeed, somewhat dull. The plots of both mysteries were reasonably interesting, and it was a fast read. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it, but when I finished it, I just felt like something was missing. This was a good read, but it could have been, and should have been, an outstanding read.

⭐Very good, if you are a sherlock fan,you will enjoy this.

⭐Great story, but let down by really poor editing. The inappropriate/incorrect phrasing, used by the British characters, is a little grating and distracting.

⭐GREAT SELLER+VALUE

⭐I absolutely loved this novel as it shed a new light on the Holmes stories and their origin in the life of Conan Doyle. The parallel storylines were very well executed and I loved the writing which is very fluent and accomplished. I cannot wait for another novel by this author!

⭐The book introduces us to both the nowadays Sherlockian meetings and the Conan Doyle’s fans of his time. Going back and forth between past and present, we follow two different crime investigations, one of them being searched by Conan Doyle himself.It gives us a good view of the Sherlockian world, shocking as it can be for an outsider, but charming and enthusiastic both for the neophyte and the initiate. Highly recomendable.

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