Sherlock Holmes

Stranger Than Fiction

De: Ray Riethmeier, Thomas Kent Miller, David Marcum, Derrick Belanger, Larry Millett, Will Murray, Craig Janecek, Andrew Salmon, I.A. Watson, Shane Simmons

Narrado por: Richard Auty

Sherlock Holmes: Stranger Than Fiction imagines the Great Detective receiving the most unique visitors ever to 221B Baker Street in 13 all-new stories!

Holmes's clients include such literary characters as: Allan Quatermain, Huckleberry Finn, Frankenstein's monster, Peter Pan, Dr. John Silence, and many, many more!!!

©2021 Belanger Books (P)2023 Belanger Books

actual fiction characters

I get this series are pastiches out of the ordinary, but Frankenstein monster and Pinocchio are a stretch.. interesting and well written, butca stretch.

Interesting stories featuring fictional characters

Some of the characters are more familiar than others and some stories have the ACD feel more than others, but all are engaging, interesting and fun. Particularly fond of the Peter Pan one, it went in a surprising direction and worked particularly well. The performance was well done especially the accent work. The first story (which features Allan Quatermain and termites with a taste for human flesh) might not be everyone's cup of tea for a number of reasons - if you bounce off that one, you can be assured that the rest are in a completely different vein.

Very well done

A nice collection of crossover stories with Sherlock Holmes very faithful to the Conan Doyle Voice of Watson.

A very mixed bag

Some of the stories were outstanding, some were not so much. Some I quite liked, some not. One of the ones that quite surprised me, as I expected from the subject matter to dislike it, was the Adventure of the Disappeared Darlings. I was quite pleased with how deftly the author resolved the case, keeping it (despite appearances) firmly in the world we know. I also got a huge kick out of the Case of the Lunar Conspiracy. The author found a way to mock certain modern beliefs without naming them outright, and yet turned it into a quite lively murder.

But again, the stories were just uneven. It felt as though the editor went (at times) for quantity over quality. Some of the stories could (and should) have been dropped, and the collection would have been the stronger for it. Some of them were just stories, unless you were deeply familiar with the source material, which in about half of them, I was not. Although the Prisoner of Zenda gave us a fun, swashbuckling Holmes.

The narration was adequate, though far from outstanding, and there were the usual misread and mispronounced words, although I suspect that at least some of the misread words may have instead been miswritten words.

So to quote the old saying, "You pays your money, you takes your choice." You might like some or all of these, you might not.