Stewart Ross
my love of all things related to Sherlock Holmes my daughter gave me this highly entertaining collection of puzzles,
This is by far the best selection of mysteries set around the world of Holmes amp Watson that I've read, Instead of just giving a one or two page puzzle vaguely connected to Holmes, Stewart Ross actually puts together a decent collection of original original short stories amp challenges the reader to solve the crimes.
Thankfully he provides solutions at the back of the book, although I was proud that I solved quite a few of them myself.
Loved this book!! Have wanted to read a book like this for sometime so I could test my detective skills, I did pretty good!! For the stories that you had to figure out who dunnit I got most of them, . . though not always arriving at the conclusion by Sherlocks exact line of logic, For the stories that you knew who did it but were asked how did Holmes know I did really well, . . again I figured out at least the main reason he knew who it was but not always all of his clues,
Would love to read another book like this!!
As a Sherlock Holmes fan, I felt like I just struck gold with this book.
I think all murder mystery readers to some degree can relate to this, and that is at one point, you want to participate.
You want to put all those "deductive skills" you've collected reading these works to use, and if you ever get it right you get SUCH an amazing sense of achievement.
I cannot more STRONGLY recommend this book to all Sherlock Holme fans out there, This book contains short stories/scenarios that you see in the Holme stories and is specifically designed to test your knowledge and deduction skills.
Not only does this feel like Holme extras but it's also a phenomenal opportunity for practice by the way it has answer sheets/explanations in the back as well so don't worry.
The French translation was riddled with mistakes and incoherences, which dampened my enjoyment greatly, Overall, a fast reading. The stories are very short and the solutions are predictable, Nothing like the original Sherlock, I really enjoyed solving puzzles with Holmes, Se uno scrittore trovassecasi mai pubblicati dal dottor Watson, sapreste risolverli prima di Sherlock Holmes
Carino, in alcuni casi la spiegazione è un po' troppo tirata, in altri prevedibile, ma comunque piacevoli da leggere.
The premise of the book Solve It Like Sherlock: Test Your Powers Of Reasoning Against Those Of The Worlds Most Famous Detective is that you try and solve the case using deduction and logic like Sherlock would.
You are not rushing against time here, you are only rushing against how long your interest will last,
The cases, spread overpages, have their solutions outlined in the lastpages of the book, Some cases are straightforward and you can see the solution within the first three pages, Others, well Sherlock has the advantage of knowing the names of the French royal family and languages from across the world, You just know that footprints in the snow can be faked as can blood, thanks to all the crime drama shows youve watched.
The enduring appeal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles detective with his deerstalker hat and smoking pipe is his penchant for solving cases entirely by observation and deduction.
Add a sense of entitlement with an unhealthy sense of arrogance and a proclivity to dabble in narcotics in order to solve the case and lets not forget the help of individuals on the other side of the law and you have a detective that speaks to every rebellious cell in your body.
Does the book capture that Not completely, The initial excitement of solving the cases dissipates over thepages of cases, And surely, no mystery is solved in the same way by every detective,
The writing also misses key mysteryappeal, a necessity in every whodunnit, but, maybe, it is meant only as a leisurely read, where you dont have to tax your brain with complex logical reasoning.
Still, the sense of urgency that crime writers weave into their words is surely missed, To be honest, I intermittently set the book aside for a few hours that stretched into days before skipping some cases to finish it.
It helped that the weekend was approaching,
So then, pick this book up for a lazy perusal, lower your expectations from the worlds greatest detective, and, then, just maybe, you will enjoy this book.
Predictable. Stewart Ross has written thantitles, fiction and non fiction, for children and adults, Many are about or inspired by history, He lives near Canterbury, England, .
This is by far the best selection of mysteries set around the world of Holmes amp Watson that I've read, Instead of just giving a one or two page puzzle vaguely connected to Holmes, Stewart Ross actually puts together a decent collection of original original short stories amp challenges the reader to solve the crimes.
Thankfully he provides solutions at the back of the book, although I was proud that I solved quite a few of them myself.
Loved this book!! Have wanted to read a book like this for sometime so I could test my detective skills, I did pretty good!! For the stories that you had to figure out who dunnit I got most of them, . . though not always arriving at the conclusion by Sherlocks exact line of logic, For the stories that you knew who did it but were asked how did Holmes know I did really well, . . again I figured out at least the main reason he knew who it was but not always all of his clues,
Would love to read another book like this!!
As a Sherlock Holmes fan, I felt like I just struck gold with this book.
I think all murder mystery readers to some degree can relate to this, and that is at one point, you want to participate.
You want to put all those "deductive skills" you've collected reading these works to use, and if you ever get it right you get SUCH an amazing sense of achievement.
I cannot more STRONGLY recommend this book to all Sherlock Holme fans out there, This book contains short stories/scenarios that you see in the Holme stories and is specifically designed to test your knowledge and deduction skills.
Not only does this feel like Holme extras but it's also a phenomenal opportunity for practice by the way it has answer sheets/explanations in the back as well so don't worry.
The French translation was riddled with mistakes and incoherences, which dampened my enjoyment greatly, Overall, a fast reading. The stories are very short and the solutions are predictable, Nothing like the original Sherlock, I really enjoyed solving puzzles with Holmes, Se uno scrittore trovassecasi mai pubblicati dal dottor Watson, sapreste risolverli prima di Sherlock Holmes
Carino, in alcuni casi la spiegazione è un po' troppo tirata, in altri prevedibile, ma comunque piacevoli da leggere.
If you've always fancied yourself a bit of a Sherlock Holmes, there's no better way to test yourself than against these ingenious puzzles.
In this intriguing book, Stewart Ross presentsnew Sherlock Holmes cases and challenges you to pit your powers of deduction against those of the Great Detective.
Full of the atmosphere and ambience ofb Baker Street, you'll feel like you've stepped back into the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle.
except, this time, with the chance to prove you're a match for the super sleuth,
Each case provides all the evidence you'll need to crack it, provided you're sharp enough to pick up on all the clues, with challenges from codebreaking to lateral thinking, memory to logic.
and of course, how Sherlock came up with the solutions can be found at the back of the book in case you're feeling more like Watson than Holmes.
The detective managed to solveout of thecases in this book perhaps you can go one better,
The premise of the book Solve It Like Sherlock: Test Your Powers Of Reasoning Against Those Of The Worlds Most Famous Detective is that you try and solve the case using deduction and logic like Sherlock would.
You are not rushing against time here, you are only rushing against how long your interest will last,
The cases, spread overpages, have their solutions outlined in the lastpages of the book, Some cases are straightforward and you can see the solution within the first three pages, Others, well Sherlock has the advantage of knowing the names of the French royal family and languages from across the world, You just know that footprints in the snow can be faked as can blood, thanks to all the crime drama shows youve watched.
The enduring appeal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles detective with his deerstalker hat and smoking pipe is his penchant for solving cases entirely by observation and deduction.
Add a sense of entitlement with an unhealthy sense of arrogance and a proclivity to dabble in narcotics in order to solve the case and lets not forget the help of individuals on the other side of the law and you have a detective that speaks to every rebellious cell in your body.
Does the book capture that Not completely, The initial excitement of solving the cases dissipates over thepages of cases, And surely, no mystery is solved in the same way by every detective,
The writing also misses key mysteryappeal, a necessity in every whodunnit, but, maybe, it is meant only as a leisurely read, where you dont have to tax your brain with complex logical reasoning.
Still, the sense of urgency that crime writers weave into their words is surely missed, To be honest, I intermittently set the book aside for a few hours that stretched into days before skipping some cases to finish it.
It helped that the weekend was approaching,
So then, pick this book up for a lazy perusal, lower your expectations from the worlds greatest detective, and, then, just maybe, you will enjoy this book.
Predictable. Stewart Ross has written thantitles, fiction and non fiction, for children and adults, Many are about or inspired by history, He lives near Canterbury, England, .