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The book itself is wonderfully written. Horowitz has managed to match Conan Doyle’s gift of prose, tone and pace perfectly. The story-telling is brisk and makes perfect reading for a fan of the original stories and I’ve no doubt that young newcomers, seduced by Horowitz’s Alex Rider creation, will find much to like in the characters of Holmes and Watson.

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CNN: How long have you been a fan of Sherlock Holmes? Do you remember reading your first Holmes story?

Anthony Horowitz: I was given a complete collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories and the four novels when I was 16. I remember reading “The Sign of Four” first and loving it. The book has a wonderful story with the tentacles of imperial India spreading all the way to suburban London. It has great characters, a macabre murder and a terrific chase down the River Thames. From that moment, I was hooked.

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It may well be that Sherlock Holmes is the reason why I have spent so much of my life writing crime fiction of my own and if there is one small boast that I occasionally make, it’s that I have probably written more fictional murders than any other writer. Ever. The crime figures can be quickly totted up.

If you were to ask what has made Sherlock Holmes the most successful and best loved detective of all time, I would argue that it is not in fact the crimes or the mysteries. It seems to me that the appeal of the books has much more to do with character, the friendship of Holmes and Watson, the extraordinary and very rich world they inhabit and the genuine and often under-rated excellence of Conan Doyle’s writing, a touch melodramatic at times but still very much in the tradition of gothic romance. When I was asked to write The House of Silk, I realized that this would be the key. I had to become invisible. I had to find that extraordinary, authentic voice.

So, I set out the ten rules which I would have beside me as I wrote The House of Silk – and here they are. If you’ve read the book, you can judge for yourself how well they were kept and, indeed, if they were worth keeping.

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