Warlock Holmes - My Grave Ritual
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Publisher Description
"If you ever wondered how much better Sherlock would be if people could hurl hellfire at each other, well this one is for you." Starburst Magazine on A Study in Brimstone
As they blunder towards doom, Warlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson find themselves inconvenienced by a variety of eldritch beings. Christmas brings a goose that doesn't let being cooked slow it down; they meet an electricity demon, discover why being a redhead is even tricker than one might imagine, and Holmes attempts an Irish accent. And, naturally, Moriarty is hanging around... in some form or other.
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Denning blends laughs and chills in his entertaining third warped take on Arthur Conan Doyle's oeuvre (after 2017's The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles), in which Sherlock Holmes is a sorcerer and Watson is his more astute companion. Sherlockians will be especially appreciative of some of the jokes that riff on the canon, such as Denning's version of the King of Bohemia advising Warlock Holmes that he should "not take it amiss if your visitor wears a mask and tries to kill you." The volume consists of eight stories that take major detours from the originals that inspired them. For example, in "The Adventure of the Blue Gob-Runkle," a cooked Christmas goose returns to life and goes on the attack; in "The Adventure of the Copper's Screeches," governess Violet Hunter wears a dress that is literally electric blue. The story lines of the parodies are secondary to the humor in the best entry, the title story, Reginald Musgrave explains that male Musgraves must be named either Reginald or Spotsgrave. While Denning has been funnier in the previous books, his series conceit is broad enough to sustain this installment.
