Unabridged Audiobook
Really enjoyed this book. Very interesting story with various ‘known’ figures coming into play and interacting in a fascinating way. The dialogues are spot on, the author’s ability to describe people and things absolutely amazing. Some passages had me in tears. The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is also perfectly depicted and the narration style of the book perfect. I also very much like how the audiobook was read by Noble.
I thought I'd seen every variation on Sherlock Holmes teaming up with some public domain Victorian character; Dracula, Jack the Ripper, even Tarzan. Can't say I ever expected Eliza Doolittle to join that company. I never read Shaw, but if the musical is faithful, I couldn't see how a mystery could be involved. But Mr. Miller, looking at that story with a more practical, modern slant (despite period-perfect Watsonian prose), uncovers deeper motives to Professor Higgins' manipulations. Before the end, we'll meet more than a few other turn-of-the-century faces familiar to Sherlock fans (including what I surmise to be an unnamed Bertie Wooster, lending comic dash to what must be Mr. Holmes' first car chase), and a solution that both shocks and makes perfect sense. Narrator Noble delivers with that distinct combination of variety of voices and uniformity of tone that only the best bring to a story, and he makes the most of the varied characters. Overall, enthralling novel, well delivered.
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