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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking The Case With Science And Forensics (2013)

by James J. O'Brien(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0199794960 (ISBN13: 9780199794966)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: This book had too many summaries of the plotlines of almost all of the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories and not enough exploration of Sherlock as a scientist. Additionally, I came into the book believing that it would be about how Sherlock uses science and forensics to understand his cases, but it was more a discussion of the science he does outside of the confines of a case. The book was well written and the author obviously knew what he was talking about, but the topic seems more suited for a lecture at a Sherlock convention and not as a book adaptation.
review 2: This book made me a bit sad. It could have been so good, instead it read like a jerky thesis paper. There were citations within the text that were distracting, and the language got a bit too dry on mor... moree than one occasion. The premise and the ideas in the book were great, I just wish either the author had a better editor, or someone else had written it. Sherlock Holmes should not be boring, and this book was. less

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