FOUR STARS

Sherlock Holmes

The Montana Chronicles

By John H. Watson, M.D.

Edited by John S. Fitzpatrick

239 pages - soft cover

Riverbend Publishing, 2008

The story goes that John H. Watson, MD sent some manuscripts to the Anaconda (Montana) Hearst Free Library chronicling the mysteries Holmes solved while the two of them were there in the 1890s. Manuscripts subsequently lost or misplaced or just forgotten for more than a century until, that is, discovered in an old safe by writer/researcher John S. Fitzpatrick.

Here are four intriguing mysteries written in the same style as other Sherlock Holmes’ stories, peppered with true-to-life facts and real-life photographs depicting some of the places where the crimes actually took place. Of course, liberty is taken in the writing, weaving fictional characters with non-fictional accounts, but the style and language is all Dr. Watson (Conan Doyle).

So,

did Fitzpatrick write this book? 

Or,

is this indeed what it appears to be?  

Kudos to John S. Fitzpatrick for a pastiche well told and,

of course,

for the question marks ……

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