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A Double Barrelled Detective Story (2000)

by Mark Twain(Favorite Author)

3.05 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: There have been countless Sherlock Holmes parodies, but Mark Twain was perhaps the first. That is, if you can call A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY a parody. Personally, I'm not so sure. Holmes appears only briefly in this novella, to bungle the murder investigation and accuse the wrong man of the crime. It's well-known that Twain disdained Doyle's SHERLOCK HOLMES stories, and this novella was apparently Twain's attempt to flip the Great Detective the bird. Regardless, it's still lame.
review 2: I don't know what the "dual language reader" part of this title is. I just read the story. It was a hoot. It's a revenge story and mystery rolled into one and set in a mining camp in the old west. A young man is endowed with the powers of a bloodhound and sets ou... moret to avenge a wrong done to his mother. The funniest part of this is realizing that Twain possibly wrote it to discredit Sherlock Holmes, who shows up in the story and is debunked as a fraud. I'm still a fan of Sherlock Holmes, but it's funny to see Twain poke fun at him. Was jealousy a motivator? Not sure, but got a kick out of the whole story. less

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