![]() ![]() Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. The volume closes with Walsh’s irrelevant essay on Doyle’s anti-Irish streak Christopher Redmond’s account of the author’s first visit to America and Doyle’s own speech “The Romance of America,” which sets a stylistic standard no other contribution can match.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Most of the plots, however, fall short of the concept and scene, with mysteries either transparent (Faye, Thompson, Pearl) or foolish and inconsequential (Hockensmith’s burlesque of a ham actor, Crider’s encounter between Holmes and Buffalo Bill). Robert Pohle provides a sequel to A Study in Scarlet, and Michael Walsh a bridge between The Valley of Fear and “His Last Bow.” Lloyd Rose spins a tale told by the young Mycroft Holmes, and co-editor Stashower a Holmesian adventure starring Dashiell Hammett. Breen introduces him to American football. Gillian Linscott sets Holmes on the trail of Davy Crockett’s violin, missing from the Alamo, and Jon L. Apart from setting new scenes for Holmes, the stories abound in inventive concepts. Estleman and Steve Hockensmith are happy to oblige. If you hanker for tales of Holmes in the Wild West, Lyndsay Faye, Loren D. If you’ve never been able to picture Sherlock Holmes in Boston or Chicago or San Diego, Matthew Pearl and Bill Crider and Carolyn Wheat fill in the blanks, and Victoria Thompson and Paula Cohen take him to New York. Think the Great Detective never set foot in the United States? Think again.įans’ reactions to the 14 new stories commissioned by the editors of The Ghosts of Baker Street (2006) will depend on what they’re looking for.
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