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Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Winged Ghost

Author: Evan Muller

Narrator: Steve White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-17

Publisher: MX Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In one of Sherlock Holmes' most harrowing cases, the crown jewels are stolen from the Tower of London just days before Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. In the race against the clock to retrieve the precious gems to save from national embarrassment, Holmes finds that the case to be more complex and infinitely more dangerous than it first appeared.

Members Reviews:

A thrilling, compact adventure !

This was an exciting, action-packed mystery, with vivid descriptions and characterization. The author clearly is a fan of the original Holmes stories, yet also puts his own style into his writing. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good, fast paced mystery thriller.

The author has a future but---

This novel is not true to the originals. Too much action, not enough of the original style language, centers on Dr. Watson and not Sherlock Holmes, fire arms are too prevalent. Actually for a freshman in High School it is a good first effort.

Keep an Eye on this Young Writer

This jumps into atmosphere like a classic radio play, and remains densely packed with paragraphs capable of giving us a lot of information in a small space. I'm giving bonus points to the author for knowing about the proclivity of Hyde Park speeches to turn into Hyde Park riots! At first I thought the opening sentence was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Dark and Stormy Night contests (the occasional bane of 9th graders with Dolores Umbridge-gleeful English teachers), but that was soon dispelled.

There are small things to remind us that ACD did not write this--but these are small things that enforce Muller's individual stamp and creativity. Muller writes as though he is the Watson for Watson--he offers us glimpses of things that Watson would not write for himself, just as Holmes' style is far different when he writes for himself than when Watson does it for him. Muller's Watson is a tactile man, with a close attention on his senses. He knows that ACD's Watson is a man of action and writes him as such, without apology.

Superstition is a recurring element in ACD's world--perhaps because it is still very much a part of our own today. We saw it in the very first story of STUD and later with WIST and HOUN. The unknown for the common man is a reason for fear--but with Holmes the unknown is the beginning of wisdom. The story slips from atmospheric opening to a pleasantly inexplicable mystery. I've lost count of the stories themed around "The Crown Jewels have been stolen!" but I felt my eyebrows go up as the writer took the time to develop subtle little threads of query and suspicion in the possible suspects. I felt guilty from the beginning--no one wants to think ill of venerable war veterans or the elderly in service but I found myself looking for motives in everybody, because Holmes as usual was his tight-lipped no-help self!

If Basil Rathbone reincarnated and jumped back into Sherlock Holmes films, Muller would be a contender for one of his scriptwriters. He dances on the edge of giving us clues while moving just out of reach. Frankly, this would script perfectly for a Rathbone-style graphic novel--it has Rathbone's style of action all over it with the looming, dark murk of a large, fiendish criminal mind casting psychological darkness over all.

Muller also needs to be given credit for getting inside Watson's skin.