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The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Ken Greenwald tells about his boyhood as a fan of radio shows (‘Foreword’). One advantage of radio is you can do other things while listening. In the 1980s as an archivist for a Los Angeles radio museum they found these lost broadcasts and placed them on a record. [Those are round disks with grooves to record sound.] Later Ken wrote this book from these stories, which were written by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, and taken from incidents in Conan Doyle’s stories (p.2). Their biographies are on page 200. Dr. John H. Watson wrote the ‘Introduction’. [Holmes and Watson still live as long as people read their stories.] The titles of these thirteen chapters have been modified from the originals. [This is another example where the copies are not as good as the originals.]

01) The Adventure of the Second Generation. Watson met a young beautiful lady on the train when traveling. She has a small problem. Holmes agrees to see her. Miss Norton wrote letters, a man wants £5,000 to return them. Can Homes retrieve them? Yes, and there is a surprising conclusion to this story.
02) The April Fool’s Adventure. Two men want to play a practical joke on Holmes. Lady Ann Partington suggested it. She tell Holmes her valuable emerald was stolen. Holmes finds the clues to the thief. Could something go wrong? Holmes is not fooled and explains why.
03) The Case of the Amateur Mendicant. Dr. Watson is called at night to treat a patient in the warehouse district. Then they want Holmes. Is this a trap by dangerous Nihilists? But who will be the ones caught?

04) The Adventure of the Out-of Date Murder. Lady Clavering’s husband disappeared five years earlier and she wants to be free to remarry. A search of limestone caves reveals a well-preserved body. What does that diary say? Holmes deduced the murderer!
05) The Case of the Demon Barber. The actor in a play has fears for his sanity. Is this a diabolical plot for murder? Is it caused by love or money? Holmes solved the problem.
06) Murder Beyond the Mountains. Holmes travels to Tibet to reach Lhasa. A Chinese official was strangled. The clues in the room point to one suspect. Or do they?
07) The Case of the Uneasy Easy Chair. Miss Harriet Irvin’s father was murdered in a room. His secretary said no one entered, and became the prime suspect. Holmes and Watson investigated the room and found another victim! Can Holmes find the guilty person? [Plausibility?]

08) The Case of the Baconian Cipher. Holmes read an advert in a newspaper and solves this puzzle. He travels there with Watson and M. Le Villard to meet the homeowner. Holmes discovers the murder plot and saves a life. That French detective is impressed.
09) The Adventure of the Headless Monk. An authority on the occult visits Holmes for advice on a reported apparition in Cornwall. Later this expert is found dead! Holmes calculates who was the murderer. Was it witchcraft?
10) The Case of the Camberwell Poisoners. A man visits them Holmes late at night for helpful advice. They find a dead body. Can a watch time an event? Yes, Holmes solves this mystery.

11) The Adventure of the Iron Box. Holmes and Watson go on vacation to Edinburgh. An heir should receive his promised gold. What if its gone? Holmes’ calculations finds a hidden treasure for a happy ending.
12) The Case of the Girl with the Gazelle. Holmes is called to meet an art expert. Can he solve his disappearance? A millionaire is worried about this expensive painting. Could it have been replaced by a thief? Holmes figures out the plot and saves the valuable painting.
13) The Adventure of the Notorious Canary Trainer. Holmes and Watson vacation at the seaside. A young woman asks for help, a man is following her. Holmes recognizes another visitor. Later this man shoots someone! Was this an accident? Holmes solves this mystery. Then he explains why he is interested in bees.
Great book. Love the book and the OTR shows.
I LOVED THE BOOK. I LIKE ALMOST ALL S.H. NOVELS
I went into this book with high hopes, based in part on the number of four star reviews on the site, and in equal part because I had so enjoyed THE CASEBOOK OF GREGORY HOOD, the brand new collection of 40s radio scripts by the same team responsible for the original stories that Ken Greenwald adapted here (Denis Green and Anthony Boucher). But oh my, is this book a disappointment! Well, I suppose these stories bear the same relationship to the Green-Boucher scripts that those lousy Charles Osborne adaptations of Agatha Christie's plays do to Christie's plays themselves. In other words, the script can be great, but beware a hack making it into a prose narrative, and that unfortunately is what has happened here.

Why all the good reviews? Reading closer, I can see that half of the goodwill this book garnished must be due to the esteem people have for the original broadcasts with Basil rathbone and Nigel Bruce. But their star presences are nowhere to be seen in this doggerel. You can barely make out what might have been a good plot, because author Greenwald is so incompetent. Yes, there are one or two exceptions ("The Adventure of the Iron Box" has some genuine bafflers in it), but Greenwald isn't even good at grammar the Iron Box story begins, "My old friend Sir Walter Dunbar had asked Holmes and I to spend a few days with him." Well, maybe the locution "Holmes and I" sounded more British to him. I know Boucher and Green committed so such solecism. And how about a journey to "Gretney Green"? Yeah, that sounds like a place.

But even the plots that we can glimpse through the veil of Greenwald aren't very interesting. "The Girl with the Gazelle" is like a warmed-over Irene Adler story. "The Case of the Amateur Mendicants" is like "The Red Headed League" shaken up with the fizz removed. In most of the stories, as soon as we find out what the crime is, we know instantly the identity of the criminal.

People who admire these stories must either not be reading them, or else they have a high tolerance for badly-written fan fiction. I'll read anything set on Baker Street myself, but Archons of Athens, I thought I'd pass out while reading the "Notorious Canary Trainer" and "The Camberwell Poisoners," That's how dismal they are. The period-style illustrations bring a needed charm and intrigue to the book, so 2 stars.
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