The Torso at Highgate Cemetery and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories
Written by Tim Symonds
Review by Julia Stoneham
With the expiry of his copyright, Conan Doyle’s style, plots and characters may be plundered by anyone. My hackles twitched slightly when I discovered that Tim Symonds had authored five previous collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and that I had undertaken to review his latest. However, as I turned Mr Symonds’ 209 pages, my anxiety ceased and was replaced by an increasing sense of approval and enjoyment. The use of dear Watson as narrator is an inspired notion. Tim Symonds has added to the enjoyment of the Sherlock-Watson combination by focussing on the relationship between the two of them and developing the humour of it.
Watson’s diligent “notes” will add considerably to a reader’s enjoyment of this charming publication.
In Their Own Write
You came to writing later in life. What inspired you to pick up the pen? I did come to getting my novels published well into later life, it’s true, but I hankered after becoming a novelist when I was about 12. An aunt of mine married an impecunious but ambitious would-be author by the name of Elleston Trevor. Everyone ….