Holmes lives! Love Sherlock Holmes and this does not disappoint. Great fun.

Not a bad collection of new Holmes stories. My only real quibble is that in one of the stories, Holmes proved that the accused man did NOT commit a murder, but the story didn't have him find out who did commit it. This incompleteness irked me :-)

The title story did not interest me in the slightest. But The Case of the Greek Key is a ripping yarn of codes, spies, and naval secrets. The Peasenhall Murder is a sordid case of perjury. The Phantom Chambermaid is first rate and very mysterious, though I have my doubts about the technical details. Finally, the last tale did not impress.

So a fair score might be two or three out of five. But I'm going to give it four stars, because you can just skip the rubbish and I wouldn't want you to miss the best bits.

Good read.

It was entertaining and kept my mind thinking the whole way through. At times there was a little droning on and on.

minus the second story in the audiobook i loved it! i love Sherlock Holmes and his thinking process. I love the fact that, withourt Dr. Watson, there was no way that the interlocking stories could have been solved! well done to the writer, and well done to the narrator!

Thomas is really the best of the "imitation" Doyles and, being a fan of the original, I've tried and not finished most of the rest in disgust. With one exception, the few I actually finished at best rated a "gentleman's C." (The exception is a series that does not attempt an imitation rather an altering the circumstances of Holmes' life, I've really enjoyed that one.)

It is a nice, if not highly inspired, read for those of us who enjoy Sherlock Holmes' stories.

Absolutely entrancing! I was mesmerized from beginning to end. You couldn't have torn the book from my hands!

Cerebral, historically knowledgeable and completely lacking in the warmth and humor of Conan Doyle. I forced myself to finish.

Having completed the entire Sherlock Holmes collection, I picked this book up out of mere curiosity. "Lets see how Mr. Thomas can carry on the legacy". And the result - disappointing. The difference between the two writing styles sticks out like an ornate thumb. Only a couple of stories are 'readable'; the remaining stories had to be read just for the sake of completing the book. I am not a great fan of Mr. Holmes (the pretentious jerk he is); but Mr. Doyle had a certain panache. Well, this book lacks all of it, and I am never picking up a book outside the Sherlock Holmes canon.

The Case of the Peasenhall Murder - prove man innocent of slaying pregnant serving girl