Sherlock Holmes – The House of Silk
New Sherlock Holmes novel by Anthony Horowitz out in November
The House of Silk, written as tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle 81 years after his death, is narrated in first-person by Watson.
The answer, Watson, is elementary. The reason Sherlock Holmes’ latest adventure, The House of Silk, is only being published 81 years after the death of his creator Arthur Conan Doyle, and 106 years after his final story about the tenant of 221B Baker Street, is that the story was simply too shocking to reveal until now.
The news in January that Anthony Horowitz – better known as a children’s author – had been commissioned to write a new Sherlock Holmes novel, was itself a literary sensation. The book, his publishers promise, is “stunning”, and the title has just been revealed for the first time.
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Sherlock Holmes: The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz. November 2011
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So, I’m persuming this will be aimed at the older generation as oppoesed to Young Adults which is what most of Anthony Horowitz’s books are usually aimed at?
I haven’t read any books in the Sherlock Holmes series but if Anthony Horowitz is going to be writing a book in the series I have to start reading them!
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Anthony said in an interview that it is an adult book…
it is going to be great
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I could not agree more. The movie was good so the books have to be great and the fact that Anthony Horowitz is writing them doesn’t hurt
the original conan doyle stories were actually aimed at a young adult readership but gained mass appeal through the strand magazine.
for those of you who havent read the cannon (forget about the films and most of the tv stuff)you’re in for a very pleasant surprise.
When is the next _Power_ _of_ _Five_ coming out?
I don’t know… it will certainly be very interesting, but I can’t see his style of writing in Sherlock!!
its about my favourite author and i am so excited about all this as well as expecting the same standards as they were by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…All the best !!!
Okay. Seriously dude. (And I don’t use those words often or lightly.) What are you doing?! Have you stopped using this website or what?! It’s been five months since your last post. I repeat, FIVE. MONTHS. And do you know how long it’s been since you last put a new post under Power of Five? Two years, two months!!! I must say that I can’t wait much longer for another post. I’m afraid that I’ve almost given up hope that the great Anthony Horowitz will ever blog again. (Well, on this site anyways.) -Bookworm
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I thought the Silk book was OK, above average, and it’s a case of if I had a pound for each Holmes story I’ve read I’d be rich.
I don’t know about the print version but in the ebook version that I read Watson’s wife’s name is spelt wrong. It’s spelt Morston in the ebook instead of the correct way of Morstan.
I can imagine this happened further down the line so to speak and not something that Horowitz got wrong. At least I’d like to think it wasn’t his fault?
I can’t believe the ACD estate didn’t pick up on this though. Playing ‘the game’ for a moment now basically Watson has spelt the name of his wife wrong.