This is the latest gripping Sherlock Holmes adventure from the pen of Alan Stockwell author of The Singular Adventures of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
Although retaining the well loved characters in their usual ambiance Mr Stockwell has introduced an element that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never ventured. This is a Sherlock Holmes "whodunit", so the tale is not only redolent of the style of Doyle but also hovering is the spirit of Dame Agatha Christie.
A bonus attraction in the book is an appendix with a complete acting version of the story in play script form enabling groups to enact their own murder mystery evening.
JUNE 2010 A couple of years ago [member] Dr Auberon Redfearn portrayed the great detective in Alan Stockwell's murder mystery play The Singular Adventure of The Gloved Pianist. Now the author has published the script, with a fuller account of the case, as told by Dr Watson, in Sherlock Holmes and the Singular Adventure of The Gloved Pianist (Vesper Hawk Publishing). Always at a loss for a suitable Christmas present for his friend, Dr Watson gives him a subscription to the Baker Street Chamber Music Society, little suspecting that the first recital they attend will be marred by the gruesome murder of Guido Salvato the celebrated 'gloved pianist'. The suspects include a professional rival and a jilted lover, but Holmes needs all his skill and specialist knowledge to discover the culprit. Watson's narrative includes a less grisly but equally baffling mystery, that of the disappearance of the Hon Edward Dunstable. As I said of the earlier volume The Singular Adventures of Mr Sherlock Holmes (also available from Vesper Hawk) "The style is an acceptable simulacrum of Dr Watson's, and Mr Stockwell clearly knows his period and his Canon. He also has an engagingly inventive imagination." The acting version of The Gloved Pianist would be great fun to stage, as the audience has a significant role in the drama.
JOURNAL OF THE SHERLOCK SOCIETY OF LONDON - WINTER 2010
Alan Stockwell gets close to the authentic Watsonian narrative style, and the reader is transported convincingly back into the ambience of the (here) Edwardian era. The story introduces a very ingenious basic idea, whereby the latest technology of the age conspires to produce a crime unique in the annals of malefaction. . . the demonstration of method in the one case, and the murder in the other, were both effected by means which “would have been impossible just a few years ago”. If this intriguing fact does not make you yearn to read the book, then it jolly well should!
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