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Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

By: David Stuart Davies
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN: 1840225483
ISBN-13: 9781840225488
Released: 05 Oct 2007
RRP: £2.99
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A convincing blend of two author styles - By: Alistair Duncan, 30 Apr 2008
I am a fan of both the Sherlock Holmes stories & the Zenda stories of Anthony Hope. Therefore I was intrigued by the idea of an original story that brings the two together.

David Stuart Davies does a magnificent job with this short story. It inevitably reads more like a Holmes story but Hope's characters behave & act as they do in his own works.

My only criticism of this book lies in the fact that it takes no account of Hope's own sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda - Rupert of Hentzau. Anthony Hope wrote his own sequel to the events of his famous story & Davies' story takes no account of it & presents itself as the sequel to the original. The decidedly dark & sad ending of Hope's sequel is replaced with the upbeat & happy ending that modern readers tend to insist on. Such an ending was impossible at the time Hope wrote his originals but Davies, freed of such limitations, has been able to end the Zenda adventure on a high note.

I heartily recommend this book but readers should also make sure they read Hope's own sequel & appreciate how he envisaged the ending of the Zenda adventures.