and amazon order completed

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie A. King

*eyes Amazon* Okay, now I officially miss my Amazon Prime account. Waiting a week? I want it in two days!

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

I got recced Beekeeper's Apprentice about a week ago too. And yes, amazon prime *emotear*

[amalthia]

I'll check out the BeeKeeper's Apprentice...the title sounds interesting but I know nothing about the story.

[nafs]

Beekeeper's Apprentice! I love this series. (It's Laurie R. King, btw) The most recent books tend to be a bit dense (but still good) but the first three or four are just lovely.

[writerlibrarian]

Of these three Holmes derivative writers I like Dibdin the best, he died last Friday btw. Laurie King my least favorite, I tried very hard to like her, read the first two and found it very difficult to connect to the lead character. Maybe because it read a lot like fanfic to me. YMMV.

Caleb Carr (The alienist) did a Holmes novel in 2005 The The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes secretary that I haven't read yet but it's on my to get around list.

Beekeeper's Apprentice is teh shit

[katelennon.livejournal.com]

I have nothing but love for King's revamped Holmes & Co. I like Mary Russell tremedously and have loved everyting except the "hall" book. The first two, heck even three are astounding "A letter of Mary" and "Monstrous Regiment of Women" rocked the casbah. Honestly. I liked the last one that just came out as well.

I have to say though, I'm a sucker for BkA and MRoW. hey, in a word, Rock. And there is some fairly decent (and lots of horrid) fanfic.. especially as dammit_holmes. good times.

[lorraine-gayley.livejournal.com]

If you've read the works of H.P. Lovecraft (or even just know anything about his creature Cthulhu), you might enjoy this short story by Neil Gaiman, "A Study in Emerald". It's a crossover fic of Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft, and is exquisite and creepy as only Gaiman can make it. It's available here in PDF format, and is a bit hard to read, but it's worth it. If you scroll down just a bit on this page, you'll see the link for the story.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories

[cjandre.livejournal.com]

The Beekeeper's Apprentice is really good!

And waiting a week is good for your character...

Really.

Well, taht is what they always tell me.

:-)

[damiablue.livejournal.com]

I love The Beekeeper's Apprentice - hang on in there, it's worth the wait. I agree that the first few books of the series are a lot easier to read that the later one's but they're still worth the effort.

[meelie.livejournal.com]

The Beekeepers Apprentice is excellent! It's one of my all-time favourite books!