Volume 25, Number 13 · August 17, 1978
'Watson, I'm Back'
By Julian Symons
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
by Michael Dibdin
Pantheon, 192 pp., $7.95
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story,…well, one would like to think so. In the last five years we have had Holmes as a man of the theater and time traveler (Robert Lee Hall's Exit Sherlock Holmes), the revival of Moriarty in a trilogy by John Gardner, and of course Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Add to this fiction the revival of William Gillette's play, with John Wood as a marvelously convincing Sherlock, a Sherlock Holmes scrapbook, a new illustrated edition of the stories, and a bigger than usual batch of books dealing with Holmes scholarship, among them D. Martin Dakin's A Sherlock Holmes Commentary, which discusses every story in detail, and Ian Mc-Queen's Sherlock Holmes Detected, and you have enough to fill a small shelf. The last Sherlock Holmes story? It does not seem likely.
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