Sam Siciliano, Author O. Penzler Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-883402-46-4
In 1890 Sherlock Holmes and his cousin Dr. Henry Vernier are summoned to France to rid the great Paris Opera House of an ``opera ghost.'' Readers familiar with Gaston Leroux's story will be on safe ground in Siciliano's retelling. An elusive phantom
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Sam Siciliano. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $9.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-85768-698-5
Despite some gratuitous shots at Dr. Watson, Siciliano's second pastiche is an improvement over his first, The Angel of the Opera, presenting a non-canonical view of Holmes that remains persuasive. Once again, the narrator is another doctor, Holmes'
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Sam Siciliano. Titan, $9.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-781166-81-9
Siciliano pulls off an impressive feat in his third pastiche (after 2012's The Web Weaver), crafting an homage to The Hound of the Baskervilles that is genuinely creepy in its own right. As in his previous two Holmes novels, Siciliano has...
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Sam Siciliano. Titan, $9.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-783295-55-5
Siciliano skillfully utilizes plot elements from an obscure Bram Stoker novel in his stellar fourth Sherlock Holmes pastiche (after 2013's The Grimswell Curse). Adam Selton, the young heir to a large estate, comes to Baker Street after getting a...
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Sam Siciliano. Titan, $12.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-78565-252-3
Siciliano continues to excel in the niche he’s created for himself in the ever-growing universe of new Sherlock Holmes novels. Like most of his previous pastiches, his fifth (after 2016’s The White Worm) is inspired by a well-known work of suspense...
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Sam Siciliano. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-785657-02-3
In Siciliano’s superior sixth Sherlock Holmes pastiche (after 2017’s The Moonstone’s Curse), Marguerite Hardy, a Frenchwoman living in London, is badly frightened when someone sends her a newspaper clipping describing the death, apparently from a...
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Sam Siciliano. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-789092-69-1
At the outset of Siciliano’s excellent seventh Holmes pastiche (after 2018’s The Devil and the Four), which takes its inspiration from Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” 21-year-old Isabel Stone, who lives with her stepfather, Capt.
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Sam Siciliano. Titan, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-803361-84-0
Siciliano’s weak eighth Sherlock Holmes pastiche (after 2020’s The Venerable Tiger), more of an action thriller than a mystery, pairs Holmes with his physician cousin, Henry Vernier, instead of Dr. Watson, a difference that has little impact on the...
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