Sandy found an odd little book in the local bookstore. It's one of a series of modern reprintings of old pulp detective novels, complete with a cover featuring a screaming, scantily-clad woman being menaced by a muscular, tattooed guy. You know, the sort of thing that screams "trashy". And the teaser paragraphs on the first page have a scene that they are obviously trying to play up as being on the torrid side.
The thing is, it's "The Valley of Fear", the last Sherlock Holmes novel. The author is just listed as "A. C. Doyle, author of 'The Lost World'". The blurb on the back seems to be going out of its way to downplay the idea that this book has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, only mentioning him in passing at the very end.
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Date: 2010-01-13 11:05 am (UTC)Sandy found an odd little book in the local bookstore. It's one of a series of modern reprintings of old pulp detective novels, complete with a cover featuring a screaming, scantily-clad woman being menaced by a muscular, tattooed guy. You know, the sort of thing that screams "trashy". And the teaser paragraphs on the first page have a scene that they are obviously trying to play up as being on the torrid side.
The thing is, it's "The Valley of Fear", the last Sherlock Holmes novel. The author is just listed as "A. C. Doyle, author of 'The Lost World'". The blurb on the back seems to be going out of its way to downplay the idea that this book has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, only mentioning him in passing at the very end.