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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.  Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle Michal Dibdin has done an excellent job of invoking the feel and tone of a Holmesian story.  The snide and condensing way that Holmes treats everyone he meets.  The kindness and slight dimwittedness of Watson.  The grudging

Cleaving

Like reading a sequel to The Wizard of Oz where we follow Dorothy in her new life as a crack whore. Julie Powell was so pissed off that Nora Ephron made her look like a nice person in the movie Julie & Julia that she has gone far above and beyond the call of duty