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Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac

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3.6/5
AbeBooks

Publication date
  
2002

Originally published
  
2002

Genre
  
Detective fiction

Editor
  
Barrie Roberts

3.5/5
Goodreads

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Author
  
Barrie Roberts

Publisher
  
Allison & Busby

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ISBN
  
0-7490-0546-7 (first paperback edition)

Followed by
  
Sherlock Holmes & the Devil's Grail

Similar
  
Sherlock Holmes series books, Detective fiction books, Arthur Conan Doyle books

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Barrie Roberts which pits Sherlock Holmes against an anarchist who is bombing trains.

The story involves real life incidents such as the Siege of Sidney Street.

The events of the novel bookend the original Doyle story His Last Bow.

Reception

Eric Monahan called the book a "first rate pastiche" while Roger Johnson stated that Roberts "captures the Watson-Doyle style better than most".

References

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac Wikipedia