The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes By Sax Rohmer - Volume 2

The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes by Sax Rohmer is presented here as Volume 2. This edition is compiled by Alan Lance Anderson.

Key details

• Volume 2
• Compiled by Alan Lance Anderson
• 396 pages
• ISBN 9781787050037
• Royalties from the books go to Happy Life Children's Home

Synopsis

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, detective fiction flourished, with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories setting a distinctive tone that later writers have often tried to recreate. This collection argues that many modern “new” Holmes pastiches struggle to match that original flavour, in part because contemporary voices differ from Victorian speech and thinking.

Instead, it turns to Conan Doyle’s contemporaries, whose work naturally carries the period’s cadence. Drawing on stories Sax Rohmer wrote in the 1920s, this volume reworks tales that originally featured a Holmes-and-Watson-like detective and narrator, reshaping them into adventures featuring Holmes and Watson themselves.

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