Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Japan, by Vasudev Murthy
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It’s 1893. King Kamehameha III of Hawaii declares Sovereignty Restoration Day ... Tension grows between China and Japan over Korea ... The Bengal Famine worsens ... A brilliant scientist in Calcutta challenges the system … The senior priest at Kyoto’s Kinkaku-ji temple is found dead in mysterious circumstances.Dr John H. Watson receives a strange letter from Yokohama. Then the quiet, distinguished Mr. Hashimoto is murdered inside a closed room on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay. In the opium dens of Shanghai and in the back alleys of Tokyo, sinister men hatch evil plots. Professor Moriarty stalks the world, drawing up a map for worldwide dominion.Only one man can outwit the diabolical Professor Moriarty. Only one man can save the world. Has Sherlock Holmes survived the Reichenbach Falls?In a seriocomic novel that radically ups the ante, Sherlock Holmes and Watson find their match in more than one man (or indeed, woman) as a clock inexorably ticks. History, mystery, romance, conspiracies, knife-edge tension; a train in Russia, roadside crime in Alexandria, an upset stomach in Bombay, careening through Cambodia, nasty people in China, monks in Japan–here’s a thrilling global chase that will leave you breathless (occasionally with laughter) as the Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years series begins.
Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Japan, by Vasudev Murthy- Amazon Sales Rank: #1854369 in Books
- Brand: Murthy, Vasudev
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 284 pages
Review Efforts to keep Sherlock Holmes going―and maybe cash in on that mighty name―have taken some strange turns over the years. He’s battled Dracula, thwarted Nazis, even gone to see Dr. Freud. Now Indian author Murthy is here with another Watsonian revision, telling us that the great detective didn’t stage his return to life in “The Adventure of the Empty House.” Rather, Holmes and Watson were in touch soon after the Reichenbach Falls, heading off to Asia to thwart Professor Moriarty’s attempt to dominate the world’s opium trade. Murthy displays considerable narrative skill, setting up a locked-room mystery, mounting chases and confrontations, and doing it all so artfully that one wonders: Why drag Holmes in? In a prologue, Murthy says it’s like riffs in jazz, new twists on an old tune. Maybe, but why do so many of these pastiches end up making a joke out of Holmes? Before the story’s done, we see Holmes wearing a pigtail, turning vegetarian, and lecturing on it at the Royal Society. This is a first-rate adventure yarn, though many Sherlockians may be holding their noses.
About the Author Vasudev was born in Delhi and has meandered around the world with lengthy stopovers in Tallahassee and Dallas. His books span a variety of interests, from Indian classical music to crime fiction, humor, and business management. A violinist and animal rights activist, Vasudev lives with his family and five snoring dogs in Bangalore, India where he runs a consulting firm.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Amateurish and and rambling By Jason Kirkfield I wanted to like this. Author Vasudev Murthy is obviously a fan of Sherlock Holmes, and his book starts off promising. Watson's letter to the editor, although surprisingly misogynistic--"The modern woman is devious, my dear Sir"--is hilarious. Perhaps most surprising of all, this book is enjoyable up to the point when Holmes makes his appearance. It soon slows down with a barrage of communiqués, then grinds to a history lesson halt with the soliloquy from spy-secretary Masako.To the extent that a writer can humanize a story with perspectives from his or her own life, readers may benefit. India native Murthy attempts to do so but, ironically given the story's oceanic setting, he goes overboard. The Missing Years: Japan is too long, too rambling (not necessarily the same problem), and too personal. The author weighs down the plot line with innumerable detours throughout India and Asia. In spite of the tongue-in-cheek footnote, the publisher should have indeed trimmed large swaths of text.More than the meandering and bloated story, this book is loaded with far too many in-jokes in the form of progressively-less-funny snipes at Sherlockian monographs. "I did not read this monograph as I felt it was one monograph too many." "Holmes' mania for monographs certainly called for a separate monograph." Ad nauseam. Despite the back cover claims, I imagine the author laughed more when he wrote this than I did when I read it. He probably enjoyed inserting himself as a character (Akira Yamashita), however doing so is rarely recommended, even for old hands such as Clive Cussler.Murthy/Yamashi also relies on some trite devices, including Bond villain exposition and requisite retro steampunk. The Moriarty-cam is especially unsuccessful. When it comes to this arch-villain, less is more. In fact, Professor Moriarty features directly in only one of the original sixty stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, and indirectly in perhaps half a dozen more. Here, however, he becomes a caricature. Very uncomfortable, too, is the critical dynamic between Holmes and Watson, who are constantly at each others' throats. Perhaps they were happier apart? Holmes is known throughout the canon as cold and calculating, but here he is crabby and cruel.Ultimately, this wasn't very good, and it gets worse the closer Holmes and Watson get to Japan. Overall it is more of a travelogue than a mystery novel, and in some ways it is closer in spirit to an epic novel such as Water Margin. I liked the verses preceding each chapter, though they are more Shibumian than Sherlockian.I would be willing to read an updated version, but it would need substantial substantive editing. According to the author, the first three chapters were accepted by the publisher, and then "I wrote the rest of the book in six weeks in a state of panic." That much is obvious, and reconciles with my own reading experience. The first few chapters were enjoyable and well-paced. The rest was not.I am reviewing the Poisoned Pen Press release. Not sure about the duplicate HarperCollins listing (Sherlock Holmes In Japan) which may be a concurrent Indian release. In any case most of the reviews listed there are One-Hit Wonders.[The reviewer was provided with a complimentary copy of the book.]
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Sherlockian intrigue enters a new era! By eyes.2c What is it about Sherlock Holmes--the pull of Sherlockian or Holmesian interpretations? We can't seem to get enough of him. And he appears everywhere, in print, in film, in television, all with differing perceptions of the man, the myth--and now we have the 'Missing Years'It's 1893, approximately two years since Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock's death. Watson receives a note ostensibly from Sherlock asking him to go to Japan. Does he think twice? No, he goes!On Board ship he meets a number of interesting people including the quiet and gentle Mr. Kazushi Hashimoto with whom he shares a cabin. The morning the ship docks in Alexandria, Watson awakes to find the small cabin window open and Mr. Hoshimoto dead. With another passenger, Mr. Shamsher Singh, Watson investigates how access might have been gained to the cabin. Watson himself appears to have slept through the incident, a restless sleep accompanied by strange dreams.This is just the beginning of a diabolical plot that leads straight to Moriarty! The plot moves from Bombay to Vladivostok, across Asia to Japan. Three criminal gangs--Yakuza, the opium trade and economic domination are all part of the twist. Add to that the spectre of Moriaty and the cup is more than full--it doth overflow! As Watson observes when Sherlock is recounting his time post the Falls, 'the whole thing was bewildering in its complexity.'Watson's chronicles, and the inclusion of comments by other players, adds an interpretive account post the case, further illuminating events for us. Initially I didn't warm to this artifice but as time went on I appreciated Watson's little asides. The story took on its own reality. And those endless monographs! I do appreciate author Watson's humour with his running commentaries about Poisoned Pen Press.Holmes and Watson's seemingly mad scramble across the southern asian continent is a wonderful mixture of pure Sherlockian intrigue that combines the heady excitement of new discoveries, be it the landscape and it's flora and fauna, cultural, architectural, scientific enquiries that Holmes is so focused on and delighted by, or escaping Moriaty's seekers in a variety of astonishing and heart stopping ways. It's here that I thought Sherlock Holmes--a precursor to Indiana Jones perhaps?The culmination in Japan is bursting with possibilities, indeed the whole expanse of Holmes and Watson's journey is hectic, rapid and astonishing.The forward by certainly Vasudev Murthy helps to focus attention upon the story telling possibilities inherent in Sherlock's missing years. The further I delved into missing years chronicle by Watson, the more I was drawn into its dynamics.A NetGalley ARC
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Did not make the favorites list and doubtful will warrant any positive mention at all. By Ken "Sherlock Holmes in Japan" starts off fair enough, a cryptic letter from Holmes who was assumed dead after his plunge into the fast-moving waters beneath Reichenbach Falls at the hands of Moriarty, a journey on a ship in which a traveler goes missing and another is murdered and Holmes' sudden appearance when he is most needed all set the table for what surely will be a fine Holmes pastiche.Beyond that, things just kind of fell apart.First, for Holmes being on such a secretive mission and having to look over his shoulder at every turn for fear of falling into the vast web spun by Moriarty, Holmes takes quite a few questionable characters into his confidence. Holmes is doing his best to travel incognito. But, he easily strikes up conversations with seemingly random people and after but a short acquaintance, drops his shields and proclaims his and Watson's true identities to little consequence. Hardly incognito.Also, the mention of Holmes many monographs on subjects far and wide is a standard in Holmesian works. However, the mention of countless monographs already written or planned takes it too far. Yes, Mr. Murthy, we get it. Holmes writes monographs.Additionally, the author makes a misogynistic remark that his editor has asked him to slim down certain aspects of his story but he states that he declined. I'm not sure if this mention of the editor was made in jest or if it was just an attempt to add a degree of legitimacy to the story. Either way, the author should have heeded his editor's advice. While I enjoy educational "fillers" in a story, added for flavor, or an occasional literary sidebar just for the fun of it, chapter after useless chapter that is not advancing the author's thesis is absolutely annoying.All-in-all, I have to say that this novel did not make the favorites list and doubtful will warrant any positive mention at all.2 STARS
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