In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon.For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and frien In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of s...
| Title | : | For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon |
| Author | : | Laurie R. King |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Mystery |
| ISBN | : | For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon ISBN |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 pages pages |
For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon Reviews
There were a couple of pretty decent stories in here- The Case of the Missing Case by Alan Gordon had a good young Sherlock and Mycroft, Hounded by Zoe Sharp did a good modernization of Hound of the Baskervilles (and included the author's own character), and The Case of the Naked Butte...
3.5 stars In the beginning I wasn't even sure I'd finish this book because I just wasn't that interested in the first few stories. I'm glad I did though, as I found a handful very enjoyable. ...
Excellent - a diverse collection in format, settings, and Holmes characters. I especially liked the ones by Zoe Sharp, Harley Jane Kozak, Alan Gordon, and Jamie Freveletti, but there wasn't a single story I didn't enjoy! ...
What a cool concept - get a bunch of different writers to write a short story based on Sherlock Holmes and put them together into a book. Neat to see how different each story was and the cool takes on Sherlock Holmes. I thought most of the stories (there was a few I skipped) were gre...
A good collection of Holmes based stories. ...
Very good collection of short stories. There was only one I didn't care for. I will be checking out a couple of the authors that I wasn't familiar with. ...
Oh wow! I had no idea the above editors have produced these! This was the 4th compilation and I'm off to look for the first 3. All of the stories were excellent, some outstanding. ...
Enjoyed the stories in this book, representing a rage of writers and artists, all inspired by Sherlock Holmes. Some of the stories are straight Holmes pastiches - either set in Victorian time or more modern eras. But most of them are tributes to the inspiration of Holmes and his method...
A very enjoyable book! The only story I didn?t finish in it was ?Buy a Gun? so I can?t speak to that one. The others were very reminiscent of Doyle?s original stories and it was great fun to read stories that his had inspired! ...
Not enough Laurie in the book. ...
Anthology of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. About half of the stories actually have Holmes as a character. The graphic story picturing Holmes as a preying mantis was rather fun. Some of the stories are borderline SF. Every one is at least a sem...
Following two earlier anthologies, Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, this new anthology features stories inspired by the Holmes Canon. It features stories by some of the best-known authors of today. Peter S. Beagle, Reed Farrell Coleman, Jamie Frevelett...
A varied collection of stories, running the gamut from actual Holmes to "inspired by" in very, very different ways. A few were 4-5 star, but most were just interesting. ...
Very enjoyable. ...
Read my review this Friday on bookreporter. com. ...
I enjoyed the variety of stories, inspired by but not limited by Sherlock Holmes, and I wonder what Doyle would have thought of the ongoing interest in and reinterpretation of his works. I have some favorites, but found them all thought-provoking. I read a story or two at a time, spaci...
These stories are very strange. The strangest is The Case of the Naked Butterfly, where all the characters are bugs. I'm sorry that my favorite mystery author LRK didn't contribute a story. I wanted to read this because she put an excerpt of the one by Harley Jane Kozak on her website....
Originally published at Reading Reality Welcome to my review of the biennual collection of Sherlock Holmes-inspired stories edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. This is an every two years treat, as evidenced by my reviews of the previous collections in this quasi-series, ...
I love most things Holmesian and this biennial set of short stories inspired by the Holmes Canon is a fun read. ...
An enjoyable collection of stories. I really liked some more than others but none were bad. ...
I really enjoyed all the different settings, dates, crimes, etc. ...
Interesting, but uneven. Some stories were good, but some were weird. ...
With a few exceptions, I really enjoyed this collection of short stories inspired by Sherlock. The stories were divided between the accurate historical setting and a contemporary re-imagining. And surprisingly, I enjoyed either equally. The stories that stood out for me were: Hounded (...- Thoroughly enjoyable -- interesting range of stories including a graphic version starring bugs. ...
- This was a fun compilation of short stories inspired by Sherlock Holmes. Some were more like fan fiction and others just inspired by the genre. I enjoyed the fan fiction stories better than most of the others. A few of the stories were a little painful to get through. My favorite st...
- Good stories for the most part, especially most of the female authors. It was fairly easy to pinpoint the old, white guys through their sexist and stilted writing. Dear male authors, Rape is not a plot device. Sincerely, Humanity ...
I love a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes but these are just poor stories relying on a great name like Sherlock Holmes. If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read this book, he like me, would quit in the middle. Very disappointing. I was really looking forward to reading the book. If lines like...I wen...- Short stories ...
I love collections of short stories around a theme. I also love Sherlock Holmes so this book was perfect. ...
With their fourth Sherlock Holmes short story collection, authors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger have put together something special. FOR THE SAKE OF THE GAME features stories inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective, but not necessarily starring him. This allows for ...
