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Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Japan

af Vasudev Murthy

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"It's 1893. King Kamehameha III of Hawaii declares Sovereignty Restoration Day... Tension grows between China and Japan over Korea... The Bengal Famine worsens... A brilliant scientist in Calcutta challenges the system... The senior priest at Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji temple is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Dr John H. Watson receives a strange letter from Yokohama. Then the quiet, distinguished Mr. Hashimoto is murdered inside a closed room on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay. In the opium dens of Shanghai and in the back alleys of Tokyo, sinister men hatch evil plots. Professor Moriarty stalks the world, drawing up a map for worldwide dominion. Only one man can outwit the diabolical Professor Moriarty. Only one man can save the world. Has Sherlock Holmes survived the Reichenbach Falls? In a seriocomic novel that radically ups the ante, Sherlock Holmes and Watson find their match in more than one man (or indeed, woman) as a clock inexorably ticks. History, mystery, romance, conspiracies, knife-edge tension; a train in Russia, roadside crime in Alexandria, an upset stomach in Bombay, careening through Cambodia, nasty people in China, monks in Japan--here's a thrilling global chase that will leave you breathless (occasionally with laughter) as the Sherlock Holmes: the missing years series begins"--Page [4] of cover.… (mere)
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This book looks at what happened to Holmes between the Reichenbach Falls and his return to London. In this book Holmes makes his way all over the world. Moriarty is alive and dangerous, and Holmes is under surveillance and in constant danger. I enjoyed reading about Holmes's strategies for travelling undercover. Watson takes off across the globe with Holmes in this adventure. While this book was a pleasant enough way to pass the time, it didn't necessarily stand out for me among other Holmes pastiches. If I found another book in this series, I'd probably read it. This is a classic three-star read for me- pleasant but unmemorable. ( )
  lahochstetler | Jan 3, 2018 |
This was a well written book. The characters were developed and interesting. The only reason I gave this book three stars was I found some of it boring, more detail than I needed. While there was some action, there really was not a lot of mystery. I received this copy from NetGalley for an honest review. ( )
  BevAsh | Jan 24, 2016 |
This was a well written book. The characters were developed and interesting. The only reason I gave this book three stars was I found some of it boring, more detail than I needed. While there was some action, there really was not a lot of mystery. I received this copy from NetGalley for an honest review. ( )
  BevAsh | Jan 24, 2016 |
Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Japan starts off promising but slows to a crawl mid-way, bogged down by scenes that are interesting character bits but distract rather than add to the main story. The pace picks up again toward the end and the finish is reasonable. Because it's a Sherlock Holmes book, the mystery was necessary but I would much rather have read this as a travelogue. Although the mystery was well-plotted, if not well-paced, the author's descriptions of the various locations and some of the people encountered on the journey were the parts I enjoyed most.

Note: this review is based on an ARC received from the publisher ( )
  astraplain | Jun 23, 2015 |
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*** 3 out of 5 Stars
Review by: Mark Palm
Not Quite Elementary

In the wide world of books there will always be bodice-ripping romances, hard-boiled private eyes, and legal thrillers. As of late we have had no small amount of sexy vampires, werewolves, teenage dystopias and schools of wizardry. It also seems that we will have some iteration of Sherlock Holmes, not only on screens both big and small, but most importantly for us, in books.

Through the years I have read books both good and bad, about the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle (and even about the author himself) and every possible variation about their relatives and friends, in the past, the future, and various other worlds, but the latest I am going to tell you about is one of the more traditional; it’s Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Timbuktu by Vasudev Murthy.

As the title suggests Mr. Murthy’s novel is a straight-up pastiche using the most traditional elements of Doyle’s original stories. This book tells the story of the years after Holmes was presumed dead after battling his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, when both apparently plunged to their deaths at the Reichenbach Falls. After that incident, in 1891, Holmes was unseen until 1894, although the entire time there were rumors of sighting of the detective in the Far East, America, and even with the Dalai Lama in Nepal.

This story starts before the infamous encounter at the Reichenbach Falls, when a an Italian scholar visits 221 Baker Street and tells the detective a tale about an ancient parchment, written by Marco Polo, taken from a rubbing from an even older artifact found in the libraries of Kublai Khan. This parchment is half of a document that Polo, and another traveler, the famed Moroccan Ibn Batuta, both took dramatic steps to hide. Now a secret organization, The Brotherhood of the Letter, who may have ties with Moriarty, are searching for the document as well. The chase is on.

The set-up for this story works well, but the execution falls a bit flat. The details and the background of the story are top-notch, and delivered smoothly, and Mr. Murthy manages a few subtle digs at the racial and cultural tropes of the era, but the plot drags a bit and lacks in urgency. Mr. Murthy clearly knows his history, and his Canon, but the novel seems more like an old-fashioned adventure of the type that H. Rider Haggard did so well, with Holmes, Watson and Moriarty plugged in. There are a large and various amount of viewpoints used in the book, and they add a bit to the multi-cultural flavor of the book, but they are somewhat muddled, and I had to backtrack more than once to make sure who was narrating.

Our main characters, Holmes and Watson have been done so often that it is a tall task to bring something new to the table, and here Mr. Murthy does a solid job, but the prickly idiosyncrasies of Holes are missing, and the Great detective comes across as a smart capable man, but he never really comes to life. The plot is tight, and had its share of twists and turns, and in the latter sections of the book action picked up a bit, but it was not quite enough to raise this book to the next level. Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years:Timbuktu is a stable pastiche, with some moments of suspense, but it never manages to make you forget the originals.

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"It's 1893. King Kamehameha III of Hawaii declares Sovereignty Restoration Day... Tension grows between China and Japan over Korea... The Bengal Famine worsens... A brilliant scientist in Calcutta challenges the system... The senior priest at Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji temple is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Dr John H. Watson receives a strange letter from Yokohama. Then the quiet, distinguished Mr. Hashimoto is murdered inside a closed room on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay. In the opium dens of Shanghai and in the back alleys of Tokyo, sinister men hatch evil plots. Professor Moriarty stalks the world, drawing up a map for worldwide dominion. Only one man can outwit the diabolical Professor Moriarty. Only one man can save the world. Has Sherlock Holmes survived the Reichenbach Falls? In a seriocomic novel that radically ups the ante, Sherlock Holmes and Watson find their match in more than one man (or indeed, woman) as a clock inexorably ticks. History, mystery, romance, conspiracies, knife-edge tension; a train in Russia, roadside crime in Alexandria, an upset stomach in Bombay, careening through Cambodia, nasty people in China, monks in Japan--here's a thrilling global chase that will leave you breathless (occasionally with laughter) as the Sherlock Holmes: the missing years series begins"--Page [4] of cover.

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