Re: (tears) The Men and the Mirror by Ross Rocklynne

Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 10/03/2024 16:01, Don wrote:

 

"The Final Problem" (Doyle, 1894), has Holmes chase mastermind
Moriarty.  It's an earlier case of a criminologist consistently one
step behind.

The opposite in that story - the first appearance
of Professor Moriarty in "canon".  Sherlock Holmes
has been investigating Moriarty's gang, Holmes has
given the evidence to police, and now he merely
needs to stay ahead of Moriarty and to escape
from a revenge attack.

I have been reading a number of modern Holmesian stories of late. One
is THE ADVENTURE OF THE STOPPED CLOCKS by Lydsay Faye.

It's told from the viewpoint of Irene Adler and has her first alerting
Holmes to the "professor of mathematics” from her dealings with Baron
Maupertuis. This a result of events adjacent to the untold story "The
Case of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the Colossal Schemes of
Baron Maupertuis".


Brian

Brian