A review by jesikasbookshelf
The Moriarty Papers: The Schemes and Adventures of the Great Nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, by Viv Croot
3.0
This is a very funny take on Moriarty - he comes across as writing his diary like he's Regina George. He's constantly complaining about the 'Baker Street Blunderer' like a forlorn teenager with a really bad crush. The suggestions everyone from Mrs Hudson to Lestrade were answering to him do, to be fair, make an upsetting amount of sense and his takes on the 'Adventures' as we know them are a mix of exasperation and bragging. The move to make Conan Doyle a paid writer for Holmes, rather than a fiction writer as we believe him to be, makes this book all the funnier.
Good for a Holmes fan and lovely because I picked it up at the Baker Street Museum but I think that unless you have read the stories in a bit of detail, a lot of this would go over your head. The book is excellently presented and 'complied', but there were so many parts it took a while for me to place because I haven't read any Holmes recently and I'm not sure that opens it up to as wide a readership as it could have had.
Good for a Holmes fan and lovely because I picked it up at the Baker Street Museum but I think that unless you have read the stories in a bit of detail, a lot of this would go over your head. The book is excellently presented and 'complied', but there were so many parts it took a while for me to place because I haven't read any Holmes recently and I'm not sure that opens it up to as wide a readership as it could have had.