Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery Writer

By: Fred Thursfield

Narrated by: Steve White

Gravesend 1920. A famous mystery writer, while searching through the remains of a damaged church looking for story ideas, happens upon a document that was never meant to be found or read. Any knowledge of its contents could change the terms of the treaty that ended the First World War. There is also a change in the hand that writes and records the cases of Sherlock Holmes.

©2013 Fred Thursfield (P)2019 MX Publishing

A different take

A story list of name comes to knowledge of Doctor Watson's widow. Strange deaths occur so she contacts Sherlock Holmes for help

A different but entertaining story

In a different universe, Dr John Watson is dead, and his widow, Mrs Mary Watson is the chronicler of this story. Her friend (the mystery writer) finds a document after inspecting the remains of a fire damaged church. Suddenly, the people that entered the church become victims of murder. Mary calls on the retired Holmes to help her friend. The narration was very good.

Different

Sherlock Holmes and the mystery writer.
This is a new Holmes story. Told differently but very entertaining.
A female Watson and a Holmes that hasn't changed. Actually it's more of a Watson story.
Definitely one of the better modern versions of Sherlock Holmes.
I received a free copy of this audio book at my request and voluntarily leave this honest review.

Lacked the Holmesian touch

This story brought the (no longer) late Mary Watson as the chronicler, and substitute for her departed husband. It also features the creator of Hercule Poirot in fairly thin disguise, and a cast of mugs and mopes to oppose Holmes, Watson, and Mycroft.

It was okay as a story, but unsatisfying as a Holmesian tale. I am not incented to seek out more stories by this author.

As for the narrator, he was mediocre. He was not awful, but I think not getting a lady to narrate a story where two of the main characters are women was perhaps an unfortunate choice. He misread and mispronounced a few words, and he tried to give good vocal characterizations. But again, I think not choosing a woman was a mistake.

So you decide.

Interesting premise

I liked the premise. The plot was a bit thin... it very much went with assertions about characters rather than developing them. Also, despite the title, I didn’t really find the mystery writer played a role in the story.

The narrator was a very poor fit. Having a man narrate in falsetto for the female point of view of the book was just more than annoying... I almost gave up.

I received this audiobook for free in exchange for a review.