Extollager
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Are there any? What I'm asking after is
--stories and books in print (not TV, movies, etc.)
--stories you believe to be truly good, not merely passable
I'm not sure very many, if any, things will be named. It is long enough ago that I don't remember Heard's A Taste for Honey well enough to say whether I think it is truly a good Sherlock Holmes story. (I don't think the Holmes name is used, but it's obviously the great detective.) My impression is that it was at best okay, not worthy to sit on the shelf next to The Hound of the Baskervilles, etc. (Yes, I'm implying that some of Doyle's own Sherlock Holmes stories might not be all that good.)
I don't remember the two Nicholas Meyer novels, The Seven Percent Solution and The West End Horror at all well. My impression is that the second, at least, wasn't very good.
I'd have liked to like Miller's Great Detective at the Crucible of Life, which brings together Holmes and Rider Haggard's hunter Allan Quatermain. It didn't seem to be worth finishing, as it turned out.
It doesn't sound to me like A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen is really good. I assume Saberhagen's story/stories of Holmes and Dracula are no good. That sounds like pulp rubbish.
But are there some truly good Sherlock Holmes stories out there, not by Doyle?
--stories and books in print (not TV, movies, etc.)
--stories you believe to be truly good, not merely passable
I'm not sure very many, if any, things will be named. It is long enough ago that I don't remember Heard's A Taste for Honey well enough to say whether I think it is truly a good Sherlock Holmes story. (I don't think the Holmes name is used, but it's obviously the great detective.) My impression is that it was at best okay, not worthy to sit on the shelf next to The Hound of the Baskervilles, etc. (Yes, I'm implying that some of Doyle's own Sherlock Holmes stories might not be all that good.)
I don't remember the two Nicholas Meyer novels, The Seven Percent Solution and The West End Horror at all well. My impression is that the second, at least, wasn't very good.
I'd have liked to like Miller's Great Detective at the Crucible of Life, which brings together Holmes and Rider Haggard's hunter Allan Quatermain. It didn't seem to be worth finishing, as it turned out.
It doesn't sound to me like A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen is really good. I assume Saberhagen's story/stories of Holmes and Dracula are no good. That sounds like pulp rubbish.
But are there some truly good Sherlock Holmes stories out there, not by Doyle?