Reviews for The anathema stone

The average rating for The anathema stone based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-03 00:00:00 Stanley Brown This being an Omnibus I think i should review each book on its own as I finish them. A Taste for Honey: As the book opens we are introduced to Sydney Silchester who will be our "Watson" as it were. Mr. Silchester is a very reclusive man who has, you guessed it, a taste for honey. He first meets the man he calls Mr. Mycroft when his usual Honey provider is forced to terminate his hive after his wife is stung to death. It just so happens that Mr. Mycroft is a beekeeper himself. The story was not much of a mystery in that you know How and who but really just lack the why. As far as Mr. Mycroft being Mycroft Holmes I tend to doubt it. I think Mr. Heard would have been better off just using Sherlock. because the description is Sherlock, Sherlock is the one who keeps bees in the later Holmes Adventures and Doyle tells us that Mycroft despised investigating and solved his cases from his Armchair. Reply Paid: Once again the book opens with Sydney Silchester now a professional Decoder living in Los Angeles, CA. But it seems that Trouble and Mr. Mycroft have both followed him across the Atlantic. Unable to decode a Mr. Intel's Code phrase Sydney takes his client to his medium friend Miss Brown. There the spirits reveal the meaning of what was suposed to be a harmless riddle and open a can of Worms. The plot line was a little Convoluted and I still don't accept Mycroft as the Elder Holmes brother. One thing I did like though is when the "Perfect Murder" back fired on the murderer. The Notched Hairpin: Sydney Silchester and Mr. Mycroft are back in England and this time they are flatmates. Once again Mr. Mycroft lures Sydney into a crimminal investiagtion this time under the guise of taking a holiday in the country. Imagine Sydney's chargin when an inspector meets them at the station with a case for Mr. Mycroft. Was it murder or suicide? Mr. Mycroft says it must be murder and so it must. The story is very much in the format of the Doyle's Holmes Novels. Short banter between characters to introduce the case. Then a short but thourough investigation follwed by the larger part of the novel being taken up by the murderer recounting his life story. Lastly, another short exchanges in which the murderer's fate is decided. As a whole the Mycroft mysteries are not boring though I think that these will apeall more to Christie fans than to readers of Holmes.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-20 00:00:00 David England This book really has no relation to the Sherlock Holmes universe. The Mycroft portrayed in this book is nothing like Doyle's Mycroft. That said, the mysteries worked well enough as stand-alones. They were fairly inventive and obscure, though they were too heavy on convoluted technical explanations for my taste and the pomposity of the narrator was sometimes unbearable. But the writing style was interesting.