Eddie's Fancy

Tired of trolling used bookstores I broke down and ordered the last Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer’s. told from Holmes’ retirement as a bee-keeper, this details one of his adventures after the events of “The Adventure of the Final Problem” (and “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution”) and his return in “The Adventure of the Empty House”. He finds a position at the Paris Opera playing violin under the conductor Gaston Leroux when he realizes the mysterious ghost of the opera may be more than a myth.

I enjoyed this one much more than “The West End Horror”, Holmes is out of his element but quickly rebounds. It occurs to me I’ve never read “The Phantom of the Opera”, perhaps is time for another Project Gutenberg book.

I originally became a fan of Nicholas Meyer because he directed Start Trek: The Wrath of Khan and then I went digging for his older movies like Time After Time and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution based on his book of the same name.

This one is another Holmes pastiche like The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. I found it in the used section at Murder by the Book as it’s been out of print for years. Of course, right after I found I realized Meyer’s Holmes books have been re-released.

Somebody is killing members of the London Theater world including a girl in Gilbert and Sullivan’s chorus and Holmes and Watson are on the case. This was a quick read, Meyer does a great job capturing the spirit of the Holmes stories, but I didn’t quite enjoy it as much as his first.