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    The Patient's Eyes

    Written by David Pirie

    Narrated by Richard Matthews

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    As a young medical student in Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, studied under the pioneering, forensic scientist Dr. Joseph Bell. Taking this fact as a starting point, David Pirie weaves a compelling thriller which partners Bell and Doyle as they investigate crime in the strange underworld of violence and sexual hypocrisy running beneath the civilized surface of the Victorian era.
    The Patient's Eyes moves from Edinburgh to Southsea where Doyle begins his first medical practice. He's puzzled by his patient Heather Grace's strange eye condition. Heather's parents died tragically several years earlier, and she's upset by visions of a phantom cyclist who vanishes as soon as he is followed. When Doyle gets embroiled in more dangerous events, he asks for Bell's intervention. But Bell is more interested in the patient's eyes, and the solitary cyclist, than the murder of a rich Spanish businessman.

    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 22, 2002
    ISBN9781415911662
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    • 3/5
      It might have been a better idea for me to read more Sherlock Holmes stories before reading this fictional take on Arthur Conan Doyle and his supposed inspiration, Dr. Joseph Bell. I've read a handful, here and there, over the years, so I recognized Holmes' famed methodology in Bell, but I do wonder if I missed any references due to not being more well-read. I should have read my two complete volumes of Sherlock Holmes stories first, but those are packed away in storage, and this book was sitting on the shelf in the library beckoning to me.Regardless of all that, it was an intriguing mystery. A little disjointed as far as the flow of the story, but pretty solid overall. There are two more books that follow this one up, and I plan on starting on them right away.
    • 3/5
      Fascinating mystery in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle ... but there are a lot of loose threads left ... a cliff hanger ... ready for part two.
    • 3/5
      Zum Inhalt: Sie ist jung und schön: Heather Grace, eine der ersten Patientinnen, die den jungen Arzt Arthur Conan Doyle aufsuchen. Doyle ist verwirrt, nicht nur wegen ihrer Schönheit, sondern auch wegen ihrer Visionen von einem Phantom, die sie immer öfter heimsuchen. Bald jedoch lenkt ein viel schwerwiegenderer Fall Doyle ab: der Mord an einem reichen Geschäftsmann. Doyle selbst gerät in Verdacht. Hilfesuchend wendet er sich an seinen alten Mentor, den brillanten Dr Joseph Bell. Dieser findet bald heraus, dass der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Rätsels in den Augen der Heather Grace liegt ...Am Anfang war die Fernsehserie. Eine TV-Produktion der BBC mit dem Titel "Murder Rooms". Es ging um den jungen Arthur Conan Doyle der gemeinsam mit seinem Mentor Dr. Joseph Bell Verbrechen aufklärt. Bell wurde gespielt vom großartigen schottischen Schauspieler Ian Richardson, der interessanterweise vorher in zwei Filmen bereits Sherlock Holmes verkörpert hatte.Es war ein viel versprechendes Konzept, das aber leider nur für eine einzige Staffel reichte. Und so entschloss sich Drehbuchautor David Pirie die Idee auch in Romanform umzusetzen. Es entstand eine Trilogie deren erster Teil nun, fast ein Jahrzehnt später auch auf Deutsch erhältlich ist.Ich habe eine Rezension gelesen, die das Grundproblem dieses Werkes sehr schön auf den Punkt gebracht hat. Es sei ein Sherlock-Holmes-Roman ohne Sherlock Holmes hieß es da. Und tatsächlich...Der US-Autor Mark Frost hatte in den Neunziger Jahren etwas sehr Ähnliches versucht. In seinem Roman Sieben machte er aus Conan Doyle eine Art Watson-Ersatz und ließ ihn mit einem, klar nach dem Vorbild von Holmes konzipierten, Geheimagenten allerlei Abenteuer erleben. Frost entwarf damals ein Phantastisches Szenario voller mystischer Geheimbünde und Untoter, im Falles David Piries ist nun alles sehr viel realistischer.Auch hier ist Doyle unser Watson, und Bell, der wohl als reale Inspiration für Holmes fungierte, übernimmt hier dessen Rolle als Verbrechensbekämpfer. Leider hat Dr. Bell aber längst nicht das Charisma des Meisterdetektivs und strahlt kaum die selbe Faszination auf den Leser aus. Außerdem ist es schwer vorstellbar, dass der echte Conan Doyle so ein unsäglich naiver und hilfloser Typ gewesen sein soll. Der arme Doyle wird hier gezwungen Bell brav hinterher zu dackeln und ehrfürchtig dessen Schlussfolgerungen zu lauschen ohne selbst irgendetwas Nennenswertes beitragen zu können.Immerhin wäre das alles kein so gravierendes Problem, bekäme man eine originelle und fesselnde Handlung geboten. Aber David Pirie bedient sich so offensichtlich bei den Holmes-Geschichten, dass man, als Kenner von diesen, unter einem permanenten Gefühl von Déjà-Vu leidet. Ein klarer Vorteil für die Uneingeweihten. Wenn Pirie am Anfang eine kleine Hommage an Das Gesprenkelte Band einbaut, denkt man noch: Okay, das war ja ganz nett. Aber spätestens, wenn die gesamte Handlung der Erzählungen Wisteria Lodge und Die Einsame Radfahrerin neu verwurstet wird, kommt doch ein Gefühl von Ärgernis auf.Wirklich nachvollziehbar wäre dies nur, wenn Herr Pirie sich eines besonders fesselnden Prosastils bedient hätte, oder es ihm gelungen wäre neue, ungeahnte Tiefen der Charaktere auszuloten, was aber bedauerlicherweise nicht der Fall ist.Auch wenn das Buch an und für sich ganz spannend zu lesen ist, bleibt es dabei: Leider ist ein Großteil der Handlung geklaut.Wer Sherlock Holmes nur aus den Filmen mit Downey Jr. oder als Benedict Cumberbatch aus Sherlock kennt, den wird das wenig jucken, alte Holmes-Fans werden sich allerdings wünschen David Pirie hätte etwas mehr seine eigene Phantasie angestrengt, als sich so freimütig beim Meister zu bedienen.Wer weiß, vielleicht sind die beiden Nachfolgebände ja etwas besser gelungen.
    • 5/5
      Pirie has spun a magnificent tale with Arthur Conan Doyle as his hero. The story begins when Doyle is a medical school student and ends with him being apprenticed to a mentor, Dr. Bell, on whom, according to Pirie, he based his later Sherlock Holmes novels. From his mentor he became exposed to forensics, detective work and the importance of the preservation of the crime scene, as well as looking at every minute detail of a crime.Doyle solves a bizarre crime (with the help of his mentor) involving a woman who insists she is being followed by a bicyclist who seems to disappear when she looks back at him. Her family says it's a case of nerves, but Doyle, who is falling in love with her, believes her and takes on the "case."Fascinating read, and I hope the author comes out with more soon. I became interested in this book after PBS took it on as a series on Mystery.