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Sherlock in Love: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 181058
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0688178448
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780688178444
ASIN: 0688178448
Publication Date: May 1, 2001
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Condition: A nice ex-library used copy. Some library markings. Pages clear. Cover clear. Softly worn edges and corners. Binding solid and tight.
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Product Description
How did Sherlock Homes come into possession of a true Stardivarius? Who was the one true love of the great detective's life? And what shattering disappointment left the detective with feelings of overwhelming melancholy? As Holme's great friend, Dr. Watson, sets out to answer these questions and recount the thrilling "lost" adventure of Holmes's attempt to rescue the love of his life from a mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, his own life is threatened by a figure in a familiar Inverness coat and deerstalker cap. In this extraordinary novel, Sena Jeter Naslund, author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Ahab's Wife, brilliantly reweaves the colorfully cryptic, fog-enshrouded world of Sherlock in Love is at once a rewarding entertainment and a remarkable homage to the greatest sleuth in literature.
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 A Stylish Imitation February 20, 2008
I love both Sena Jeter Naslund's other work, namely Ahab's Wife, and Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories. So I'm rather shocked by the vitriol with which some people condemned this book.
I don't think that any Holmes fan should go into any of the modern homage novels expecting it to be a genuine addition to Doyle's canon of wonderful and entertaining tales. But Naslund successfully imitates his writing style, so well in fact that it colors over the discrepancies in character and plot from the original stories. I do not believe she could have created such a lovely imitation stylistically if she had not had great respect for and enjoyment of Sherlock Holmes (though her other work does prove her to be a great author in her own right).
That said, the Holmes in Naslund's book does not always behave or think like Doyle's Holmes. This quick read is an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek perspective on great literature, but if you are such a Holmes purist that you can't enjoy that type of homage, then this book is not for you. For anyone who can accept the differences, I advise picking this book up; it is very enjoyable, if not as thought provoking as Naslund's other work.
 The Opposite of Masterpiece July 18, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is, by no means, a good or great pastiche. And, without question, it isn't even in the same league as much-finer and more accomplised efforts by the likes of Michael Chabon, Mitch Cullin, and Laurie R. King. Even Caleb Carr's somewhat lackluster Holmes novel is a more valid effort than this one. Masterpiece? No, sorry. However, if one reads this novel without any knowledge of Holmes, Watson, the Conan Doyle canon, or the handful of fine Sherlock pastiches that are out there, it probably wouldn't be so bad. Otherwise, you'd be better served to engage yourself in Laurie R. King's very enjoyable Mary Russell series, Mitch Cullin's haunting and beautifully written A SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND, Nicolas Meyer's classic THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION, and Michael Chabon's wonderfully realized novella THE FINAL SOLUTION.
 masterpiece June 4, 2005
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is good writing. Better by far than what Caleb Carr, Mitch Cullin or Michael Chabon have recently done with Sherlock.
Sooooo disappointed November 19, 2002
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Initially, I was excited to read this book. Though not a Sherlock Holmes fan per se, I LOVED Ahab's Wife and am always on the lookout for books that take common "folklore" and look at it from another perspective (e.g. Wicked by Maguire). Anyway, though the beginning dragged, eventually I got into this book and was happy to read along to its conclusion. But at the end (which luckily came quickly - a fast read), I said to myself, "so what?". There were themes of feminism and magic and friendship that weren't well-developed. But I guess that is good - otherwise the book would have been longer and I might have just put it down.
 LAME!! August 13, 2001
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
An elderly Dr. Watson is trying to reconstruct events from his late friend Sherlock Holmes's past. What follows is an absolutely insipid romance(and barely one at that). The object of Holmes' "desire" is one of the more ridiculous characters to be introduced into the world of Holmes pastiches. My God, this book was so confoundingly stupid, I am having trouble finding the words to write this review. If you desperately want to read bad Holmes fiction, read The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, it's horrid, but at least the author had some sense of literary style. If all you really want is a quick, cheap, Holmes with a woman fix, there is a whole world of fanfiction out there, and its all free, baby. But if you want to read about Holmes having a meaningful relationship with a female, have a go at _The Beekeeper's Apprentice_ by Laurie R. King and the novels that follow. And I resent some remarks made by one of the reviewers about the LRK books. You can't just group them with all the other romances out there!!! But this is neither the time nor the place to get into the subtleties of Sherlockian factions.
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