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    Holmes and Watson

    By June Thomson

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    TWO IMMORTAL CHARACTERS, A CHANCE MEETING, A VISIT TO 221B BAKER STREET. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRIENDSHIP EVER RECORDED.

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson, famous for their crime-solving capabilities, are mysterious figures themselves. What is known about their pasts, and the reasons behind their very different personalities? What led two strikingly different individuals to form a relationship which would last for over forty-six years? This detailed and enthralling account ponders answers to the many uncertainties and enigmas which surround the pair.

    And there are other puzzles to be solved. When did the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles actually occur? Who was John Watson's mysterious second wife? And what is the real location of the legendary 221B Baker Street? A thorough investigation commences as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creations are placed under the magnifying glass . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateJul 30, 2012
    ISBN9780749012816
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    June Thomson

    JUNE THOMSON, a former teacher, has published over twenty crime novels including other pastiches of Holmes' short stories available from Allison & Busby. Her books have been translated into many languages. She lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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    • 4/5
      A "fictional biography" of the great detective duo, based on the "facts" presented in the canon of Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, augmented by various speculations proposed by the author and others.Several years ago, I read W.S. Baring-Gould's Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, which was a similar sort of exercise, and while I appreciated the thought and enthusiasm that went into that work, I found it kind of tedious to get through, largely because it featured a weird combination of dwelling on details that only a truly obsessive Holmes fan would care about and endless recaps of stories you'd expect said obsessive Holmes fans to already know. Thomson, I think, does rather better on this score. She generally avoids the recap thing, reasoning that even if her readers aren't familiar with the stories, they'd probably rather read Doyle's versions than hers, and yet she still manages to produce something that's a lot more accessible to casual Holmes fans like yours truly.Mind you, some of the topics she covers are a lot more interesting than others. I found her frequent return to the question of the stories' chronology and her attempts to resolve its contradictions, for instance, rather dull, even though she thoughtfully confines most of the really fiddly arguments on the subject to an appendix, which I admit to mostly skipping. And some of her Freudian-influenced speculations about Holmes' childhood had me rolling my eyes a bit. On the other hand, I was much more engaged by some of her other discussions, including the historical context of what Watson's training as an army doctor would have entailed and what action he might have seen in Afghanistan; a detailed account of events before and after Holmes' supposed death at Reichenbach Falls, complete with some thoughts about what might have been going on in his mind at the time; an argument defending Watson against accusations that he was a bad doctor who thought nothing of abandoning his patients to go chasing after Holmes; and, of course, the inevitable speculation on the identity of Watson's second wife. Thomson's main focus is supposedly on the characters of Holmes and Watson and the friendship between them, and, given that, I was a little disappointed that there wasn't more of an attempt to get deeper into their psyches (although given the weird Freudian stuff at the beginning, maybe I should be glad of that). Still, overall, I'd say it's worth a look for the Holmes enthusiast.
    • 4/5
      This book is a 'fictional biography' of Holmes and Watson, traced through their cases and the clues in the canon. June Thomson is an accomplished writer of Holmes pastiche stories, and knows her subject and its background very well. This book is therefore of greatest interest to those already familiar with the Holmes stories. It is written with affection as well as knowledge. It does of course ask for the suspension of disbelief that Holmesian scholarship mostly involves and readers will vary in how happy they are to cope with that. But for any fan of Doyle's work, this is a very readable and useful book.