The Canary Trainer
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.
