Saturday, March 26, 2011

"The Italian Secretary" by Caleb Carr - ***

> Carr was commissioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write this book

> Setting: Victorian Scotland @ Holyrood Castle

> I love Caleb Carr's use of language, always have

> I could visualize Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law throughout


> LibraryThing Review: A really enjoyable Sherlock Holmes romp! Apparently Caleb Carr was invited by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write such a tale, and I felt like he did the task more than justice. In the afterword, Carr is also challenged to write a tale in which his own alienist, Kreizler, meets up with Holmes. It would be a wonderful combination of the scientific medical mind and the psychological.

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