The final reveal is well worth the reading. Synopsis: It is 1894, and Sherlock Holmes is called to a Covent Garden art gallery where dozens of patrons lie dead before a painting of the. The pacing flows from chapter to chapter smoothly, with tantalizing clues to discover all along the way. Title: Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of Deeds by Nick Kyme Pages: 288 Published by: Titan Books Publication date: 24th October 2017 Genre: Thrillers & Mystery Format: Paperback Amazon UK Waterstones. A whispered line, ‘the legacy of your deeds” provides the title of the book. I liked the characters a lot, especially our protagonist. This story builds nicely, and several incidents that seem to have no connections latter prove to be very important. The man has a secret, but what is it that he is hiding, or whom… Watson tries shadowing the man, who leads him far into the Old Nichol slums. Holmes believes him to have given false statements when the detective first interviewed him about the deaths. The gallery’s owner Damien Graves turns out to be a very mysterious person. Something has happened that resulted in this mass extinction of human life. Over thirty patrons of the Grayson Gallery lie dead on the floor, many near the exit. When Holmes and Watson reach the gallery, they are stunned to see a very horrible scene. It is something that Edmund Garret, who works for the gallery, will not even try to describe. Holmes and Watson are called to a murder at the Grayson Gallery of Wellington Street, a small but apparently beloved art gallery. The old banter is all there, Holmes constantly ‘using’ the long suffering Watson who in return begrudgingly understands it’s for the greater good and the genuine friendship these two share continues to be alive and well. These types of books have to be able to convey Holmes and Watson as Doyle wrote them - they can’t simply be ‘well written mysteries’ - if they fail it’s like watching in your minds eye the wrong actor play a beloved role - it ‘jars’ - it feels ‘off’ - but here I found myself back in the company of ‘my’ Holmes and Watson. This story is one of the best I have read, rich, complex and ultimately making perfect sense. Pastiches of Holmes have varying degrees of success. This is where the new generation of authors takes over offering us the chance to return to those first readings where the clues were fresh, the puzzle still waiting to be solved and new ‘game is afoot’. There is a limited number of times you can read the original Holmes stories before you know them by heart and you are no longer reading them as mysteries to be solved but as familiar text to be revisited and savoured.
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