New book, new characters, new beginnings. This book is a stark contrast from my last book. The help was about maids in the 60's and this new book is about, well, Sherlock Holmes. However, it's nonfiction. Also, it's written by David Grann, author of THE LOST CITY OF Z, if that means anything to you (doesn't to me).
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes opens talking about the missing papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Holmes. Rihard Lancelyn Green, cited as "the world's foremost expert on sherlock holmes" believed that he had solved the case of the missing papers. The papers were believed to be worth four million dollars, and was also said to carry a fatal curse. When Conan Doyle passed, the papers disappeared, with no biography written about him. Although Green was convinced to write a biography on him. After some investigation, Green had found out that the papers had passed through the plans of many of Doyle's family members and he is convinced to find them.
The book has taken a pretty slow start so far but i'm still really interested in it. I really liked the Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Doney Jr. and I hope this book will be something like it. I also like that the book is a nonfiction book because these things are happening. I'm always a little saddened at the end of a fiction book when I realize none of the characters are real, and none of that happened. Especially when Authors make the characters seem so real; but hey, that's their job.
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