![]() Though Warlock Holmes shares some of the trappings of his famous progenitor, he is a spectacularly incompetent detective. This Holmes and Watson inhabit a gleefully weird Victorian London and work their way through six cases including a bizarre version of A Study in Scarlet called “A Study in Brimstone,” in which the identification of a murderer hinges on an abandoned pastry wrapper and the reader is introduced to Inspector Vladislav Lestrade, a detective at Scotland Yard and a vampire. Spinoffs and pastiches are numerous, but Denning’s take on these beloved characters is unusual and charming. ![]() ![]() John Watson to a tall, thin, and very strange man with the surname of Holmes, an endless world of famous cases and archetypal details stretched out from their meeting. In a debut novel that cheerfully pokes fun at the Holmes-ian canon, Denning introduces readers to Warlock Holmes, a supernaturally gifted counterpart to the famous consulting detective of 221B Baker St. ![]()
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