![]() In it Dr Watson stated that these three manuscripts are the real unexpurgated stories of Sherlock Holmes. The framing story is that this was sent to James Lovegrove in 2014 as part of the property of recently deceased Henry Prothero Lovecraft, of whom James is a distant relative. ![]() The central conceit is this – this is one of a set of previously unpublished manuscripts purported to be written by Doctor John Watson, ‘the’ Doctor Watson of the Conan Doyle tales. I was soon sucked in and kept those pages turning. Nevertheless, determined to avoid my own prejudices, I started to read. So a combination of the two was, to put it mildly, a little off-putting, too bizarre to be credible. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu is a staple reread for Halloween and indeed through the year. Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes was a character I first read when I was little, and have reread many times since. I must admit that, at first, I was rather skeptical. A late entry into our Countdown to Hallowe’en this year (it’s actually published a fortnight later), this (surprisingly) was a book I found difficult to put down. ![]()
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