Sherlock Holmes and the Folk Tale Mysteries Volume 2 edition by Gayle Lange Puhl Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Jewel thefts, missing persons, even murder are all elements in the world of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. What connects the stories in this book is that the cases he and his biographer Dr. John H. Watson investigate are based on adventures beloved of childhood. In a novel twist to the usual Holmes pastiches, Mrs. Puhl has based her plots involving Mr. Sherlock Holmes on folk tales, nursery rhymes and other snippets of children's literature. She has brought them into the Victorian era and kept them true to the expectations for Holmesian stories. But these are not children's tales. There are no talking rabbits, no flying carpets or magic wands. There is not always a happy ending. They are all grounded in the logical world of Holmes and Watson. Two men are determined to prove in a race which of them is faster. A child is missing and presumed dead. Can Sherlock Holmes help heal the mother's broken heart? A baby is found in a basket at the foot of the seventeen steps to 221b Baker Street. Did an ancient legend lead to a modern-day murder?
Join Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his biographer Dr. John H. Watson as they explore the unusual cases brought to them from the land of bedtime stories and wise adages. You may never feel quite the same again about children's literature.
Sherlock Holmes and the Folk Tale Mysteries Volume 2 edition by Gayle Lange Puhl Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Sherlock Holmes and the Folk Tale Mysteries Volume 2 edition by Gayle Lange Puhl Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
My thanks to Steve and Timi at MX Books for my review copy of this book, and for continuing to share Sherlock Holmes with the world!
These adventures of Sherlock Holmes are set in similar situations to Folk Tales such as “The Bremen-town Musicians” or “Robin Hood.” Placing Holmes in this world makes for some terrific stories.
This isn’t the world of Fairy Tales. The stories are not full of magical beings fairy godmothers, or The Wizard of Oz. The author states that the stories do not contain this element because “magic is illogical.” And yet there is an undercurrent of people and events that could be interrupted as “magical.”
Folk Tales were invented to make children aware of dangers in the world. There was a true fear of wolves, witches, devils, demons and such. To let children remember the danger, stories were written, often with a moral, to teach caution.
These tales are meant to teach children about Sherlock Holmes!
I am going to skip my usual detailed thoughts on each individual story, as I cannot see how to word the brief glimpse into each tale without spoiling the entire tale.
It is my opinion that the stories in this volume go a bit deeper than the ones in volume 1. I am not saying that the author has changed a lot, but it is harder to spot the Folk Tale behind the story. All in all, it is a pretty good read!
I give this volume of stories five stars…
Quoth the Raven…
In “Sherlock Holmes – The Folk Tale Mysteries – Volume II The Dyerbury Danger and Other Stories” by Gayle Lange Puhl, is another wonderful collection of a dozen new Holmes tales, set in the correct time period without cell phones, mind palaces, or high-functioning sociopathy. The fact that some of these stories occasionally seem a little familiar just adds to the fun.
Like the first volume, these adventures intersect Holmes with the world of folk tales, although in this collection, that definition becomes somewhat less strict. For instance, one of my favorites, “The Case of the Callous Collector”, has some characters whose names are reminiscent of those in “The Wind in the Willows” (Mr. Todd/Toad, Professor Molesley/Mole, etc.) However, the behaviors of these individuals are not at all like those in Grahame’s book, and one wonders if the editor, taking a case of murder from Watson’s Tin Dispatch Box, hasn’t changed the names for fun from whatever they actually were. In any case, I’m not quite sure if “The Wind in the Willows” qualifies as a “folk tale”, as specified in the book’s title, but this is still a very enjoyable adventure.
As in Volume I, my favorites are the stories that are not overly obvious about the folk tale connections. The first volume leaned more toward fairy tales, and had very similar-to-fairy-tale-names of characters, such as “Rumpel Stiltskin” or Humphrey Dumfrey”. Luckily, this book mostly avoids that, and I hope that any future volumes get even more away from it. Additionally, in a few cases, I was hard-pressed to identify the original folk-tale connections to some of these stories.
I must essay a little bit about one story which also seems to stray from the strict folk-tale association, although it is most enjoyable none-the-less. “The Case of the Hunted Hound” makes extensive use of individuals from P.G. Wodehouse’s yarns, set in the 1920’s and 1930’s, long after Holmes and Watson would have departed from Baker Street. In the case of this narrative, I’ve had to make a rationalized explanation – something that everyone finds necessary at some point when reading about Holmes and Watson. In this case, I’m convinced that this is not a Holmes and Watson adventure at all. Rather, it begins with a visit by Bingo Little to Solar Pons and Dr. Parker at their 7B Praed Street residence. (If you haven’t discovered Solar Pons, who carried on Holmes’s work in the 1920’s and 1930’s after Holmes’s retirement, go find them and read them now!) As I showed in the essay “Basil Rathbone’s Solar Pons Films” (The Baker Street Journal, Vol.63, No.4, Winter 2013) Pons’s more modern investigations have been used before when someone wanted to involve Holmes in a different era.
In the essay, it is explained that the three Basil Rathbone “Holmes” films made by Universal during World War II and featuring very-specific World War II plots, “The Voice of Terror”, “The Secret Weapon,” and “In Washington”, are actually Pons adventures, relating Pons’s activities working for British Intelligence in the second World War – and not Holmes. When movie producers wanted to show Holmes in World War II, and were dismayed to learn that he was then in his nineties, they adapted scripts from Pons’s activities instead, changing the names of Pons and Parker to Holmes and Watson. (As I’ve shown in “The Adventure of the Other Brother” in “The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Vol.II”, Pons is actually Holmes’s nephew, so the connection is not too far-fetched.) The other nine Rathbone Universal films, all set in the “modern” 1940’s, were actually adapted from Watson’s notes about Holmes’s cases in and after the first World War, and simply modernized by adding other updated references to give the impression they are occurring in the 1940’s.
Therefore, in “The Hunted Hound”, it is Pons and Parker who are the real 1920’s protagonists, mis-identified here as Holmes and Watson. However, in no way does this diminish my enjoyment of the book – I’m just as happy to get a new Pons adventure as I am to find something about Holmes.
All in all, this is another wonderful book, and I’ll be happy if Ms. Puhl either produces a Vol.III of the folk tales, or finds a different type of story in Watson’s Tin Dispatch Box. In either case, I hope that she keeps them coming!
I enjoyed the stories. Close to the originals stories.
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