Rach's Reading Club

Review: SHERLOCK HOLMES THE MISSING YEARS JAPAN by Vasudev Murthy. 5*. Published Poisoned Pen Press 2015.

The "missing years" following the purported loss to the world of Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland, at the hands of the villainous Moriarty, until the seemingly inexplicable reappearance of Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" are ripe territory for contemporary authors to imagine all-new Holmes adventures. Indian author Vasudev Murthy has taken up this quest, and his first in the Series is SHERLOCK HOLMES THE MISSING YEARS JAPAN. The grieving Dr. Watson, amanuensis and sidekick, receives a request to accompany Holmes' violin to Yokohama! On the voyage, Watson is confronted with an "impossible" locked room murder on shipboard, intensifying the story's complexity. An imaginative look into a previously unforeseen possibility and a new adventure for Holmes and for Watson.

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