WARLOCK HOLMES: A STUDY IN BRIMSTONE

Baker Street irregular

Paul Kirkley

RELEASED 27 MAY 384 pages | Paperback/ebook Author GS Denning Publisher Titan Books Sherlock Holmes has had more reinventions than Madonna. He’s a kid! (Young Sherlock Holmes) He’s a dog! (Sherlock Hound) He’s an idiot! (Without A Clue) He’s a reanimated corpse! (Victorian Undead) So turning Baker Street’s finest into a master of the dark arts might not be very original – however, in Gabriel Denning’s hands, it is great fun. As with Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, much of Denning’s shtick revolves around finding new riffs on Arthur Conan Doyle’s original tales. But rather than simply trading up the spyglass for a smartphone, Warlock Holmes goes balls out by, for example, presenting the Baker Street Irregulars as shape-shifting rats and Inspector Lestrade as a vampire who drinks neat nosebleed.…

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