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    The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson

    Written by Nicholas Meyer

    Narrated by David Case

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    About this audiobook

    This fantastic work of fiction that is based on a found manuscipt at a renowned univerity, follows the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes during a previously unrevealed part of his life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 26, 2009
    ISBN9780307702463
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    The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson
    Author

    Nicholas Meyer

    NICHOLAS MEYER is the author three previous Sherlock Holmes novels, including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for a year. He's a screenwriter and film director, responsible for The Day After, Time After Time, as well as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country among many others. A native of New York City, he lives in Santa Monica, California.

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    • 3/5
      The thidr in the Meyer series of pseudo-Holmes books irritates me by taking the real Watsonian reference to a "canary trainer" to be a trainer of opera singers and making Holmes' opponent a version of the Phantom of the Opera. Naturally in an opera setting Holmes meets again his favorite opera singer, Irene Aidler.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoy Nicholas Meyer's Sherlock Holmes. He is true to the canon but goes a bit beyond to give us a nice view of the man. I liked the "Seven Percent Solution" and "The West End Horror" and found that "The Canary Trainer" is not as good. Although it was a good idea to put Holmes in the middle of "The Phantom of the Opera"'s plot, it removes all sense of surprise and gives an annoying sense of déja-vu if you know Leroux's book, as I did.Holmes' voice is well-written and Irene Adler is as lovely and as clever as ever. Meyer is a enthusiastic follower of Baring-Gould's theories about Holmes and the book finishes with a mention of Montenegro...In all, it was the lesser book of a wonderful Holmesian series.
    • 4/5
      Very good book. Enjoyed the characters.Love this quote from the book"The assualts we perpetrate upon our fragile shell, Watson! I see you shake your head at the wonder of it. And yet these feeble bodies of ours still manage to protect oue fluttering souls!"
    • 4/5
      I was lucky enough to get the advance reader's copy of this intriguing mystery.
    • 4/5
      Another title for this book could be "Sherlock Holmes meets The Phantom of the Opera." Nicholas Meyer does a good job of intertwining the two story lines. Meyer also throws in "The Woman" Irene Adler from "A Scandal in Bohemia" and exploits the minor plot device of Sherlock's violin playing. Using the characters and plot line from the Phantom ads spice to an otherwise average Sherlockian tale.
    • 4/5
      My first experience with Nicholas Meyer's take on Sherlock Holmes when I saw The Seven-per-Cent Solution on cable at my grandmother's. Later I came into possession of the book and its sequel, The West End Horror. But I didn't have the final one, The Canary Trainer so I put it on my wishlist.When it was time to pick up The Canary Trainer at the library, I had some time while I waited for my kids to finish what they were doing. So I sat on one of the comfy couches in the children's wing and I started to read. By the second page I was struck with how similar the book was to the opening of The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King.Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain now. After re-reading The Beekeeper's Apprentice I realized that they had to be pulling from an Arthur Conan Doyle book I hadn't read. So I did some poking around and realized I'd missed two: The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow. They are often published together and I have them now on my to be read pile.So that takes me back to The Canary Trainer. It begins with Sherlock keeping bees. But he is pulled back into his profession, this time not by a fourteen year bookworm but by his old friend Watson.The game a foot relates to Holmes's time when was away (namely between the time that Doyle killed him off and was forced by angry fans to resurrect him). The tale he tells shares points of similarity again with King's vision of things as related in The Language of Bees. This time, though, Meyer takes the story and weaves it into another contemporaneous story, The Phantom of the Opera.Being a fan of The Phantom of the Opera (the book and the original film, not the stage play nor more recent film), I had fun imagining Holmes in the middle of it all. He was trying to get away from being a detective, being there instead to play violin. Mysteries though always have a way of finding a detective, especially those who don't want to be found!
    • 3/5
      Didn't like the way Erik was portrayed. I understand this was more a Sherlock story, but with that portrayal and the changing of a few other characters from POTO, I just can't get into it. Also with a small jab at the end of Leroux's work.............its on my "Trade Only" list as opposed to the "Buy" list.It was an OK read, much more Sherlock and Watson, their portrayal was spot on. Plenty of great atmosphere and gothic/Victorian/Paris feel.Great for Sherlock fans not so much for Phantom fans. For both like me, not so good.Much prefer Angel Of The Opera.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoy Nicholas Meyer's Sherlock Holmes. He is true to the canon but goes a bit beyond to give us a nice view of the man. I liked the "Seven Percent Solution" and "The West End Horror" and found that "The Canary Trainer" is not as good. Although it was a good idea to put Holmes in the middle of "The Phantom of the Opera"'s plot, it removes all sense of surprise and gives an annoying sense of déja-vu if you know Leroux's book, as I did.Holmes' voice is well-written and Irene Adler is as lovely and as clever as ever. Meyer is a enthusiastic follower of Baring-Gould's theories about Holmes and the book finishes with a mention of Montenegro...In all, it was the lesser book of a wonderful Holmesian series.