Dust And Shadow by Lyndsay Faye (Simon & Schuster, hc, 325 pp, $25)
A Great Detective pastiche needs only six words to hook me: “Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper.”
If that’s the premise, I’m ready to read. So, when a pal told me about this latest meeting betwixt detective hero and enigmatic killer, I had to pick it up and read it Asap last Saturday—even though it came out in April.
First off, I firmly believe that Sherlock Holmes is a mystery icon who also belongs to the Sf & fantasy genre, although most of his exploits (as recorded by Dr. John Watson and literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) emphasize the realistic. Nonetheless in the pastiches written by the legions who followed Conan Doyle, Holmes has fought the Martians of H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds, sailed on (and survived) the Titanic and faced Count Dracula more than once.
A Great Detective pastiche needs only six words to hook me: “Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper.”
If that’s the premise, I’m ready to read. So, when a pal told me about this latest meeting betwixt detective hero and enigmatic killer, I had to pick it up and read it Asap last Saturday—even though it came out in April.
First off, I firmly believe that Sherlock Holmes is a mystery icon who also belongs to the Sf & fantasy genre, although most of his exploits (as recorded by Dr. John Watson and literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) emphasize the realistic. Nonetheless in the pastiches written by the legions who followed Conan Doyle, Holmes has fought the Martians of H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds, sailed on (and survived) the Titanic and faced Count Dracula more than once.
- 7/24/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (DAVID McDONNELL)
- Starlog
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