Richard Dinnick

Book 31 - David Stuart Davies - Sherlock Holmes and the Tangled Skein

Sherlock Holmes meets Dracula...how could I resist especially with a foreword by one of my favourite actors, Peter Cushing? Indeed in an interview he gave to the author shortly before his death he mused over the notion of which part he would play if the novel became a movie - as he had played both Holmes and Van Helsing, Dracula’s famous nemesis, as both are central to the story.

An interesting and terrifying vignette that works both as a sequel to The Hound of the Baskervilles and as a stand-alone story where Holmes and Watson face off against the King of the Vampires.

Very much like Abrams Stoker’s original novel, Dracula doesn’t put in an appearance until the last third of the book and then he looms over the remaining chapters. A brilliant piece of work told once again by Watson but it certainly reads like a novel Conan Doyle could have penned himself.

Brutal in its horror but uplifting its denouement, it is a fitting follow up to perhaps the greatest Sherlock Holmes story ever told. Brilliant.… (more)

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/lineage-ed-shaun-russell/

A collection of short stories in the timeline of Candy Jar Books’ Lethbridge-Stewart sequence, this time looking at the Brigadier’s ancestors and relatives from the seventeenth century to the present day (2018). All good fun, nothing that especially stood out (maybe the Quarks in the last of the stories).… (more)