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The Canary Trainer. The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson is a 1993 Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer. Like The Seven Percent Solution and The West End Horror, The Canary Trainer was published as a "lost manuscript" of the late Dr. John H. Watson. In "The Adventure of Black Peter", an original Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes ...
- 224 pp (first edition, hardback)
- Nicholas Meyer
- 20 September 1993
- W.W. Norton
Mar 17, 1995 · "The Canary Trainer" is more exciting and action-packed than anything in the Canon. Holmes, as always, uses his deductive skills to great advantage. Instead of reciting a list of observations about the people he meets (which I have always suspected he did primarily to impress Watson), he gets the job done -- seemingly by fits and starts, yet ...
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- W. W. Norton & Company
- $12.99
- Nicholas Meyer
Jan 1, 2001 · The Canary Trainer By Nicholas Meyer Reviewed March 2007 Note: This review was originally posted on a now defunct Phantom of the Board board. This is not so much a PotO story as it is a Holmesian story. If you are not a regular Sherlockian, some of the references in the story, even with the explanatory footnotes, might not mean much to the reader.
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- Paperback
Jan 1, 1993 · The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson. Hardcover – January 1, 1993. A missing manuscript is unearthed, revealing Sherlock Holmes's adventures as a violinist at the Paris Opera, matching wits with a sinister ghost with a taste for fine music and bizarre accidents.
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The Canary Trainer. : Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university where it had collected dust for over half a century, this missing manuscript by the biographer of Sherlock Holmes reveals for the first time a hitherto unknown episode in the life of the Great Detective. Holmes, master sleuth, was also an accomplished violinist.
"The Canary Trainer" is more exciting and action-packed than anything in the Canon. Holmes, as always, uses his deductive skills to great advantage. Instead of reciting a list of observations about the people he meets (which I have always suspected he did primarily to impress Watson), he gets the job done -- seemingly by fits and starts, yet ...
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Mar 17, 1995 · "Holmes enthusiasts will again find a story that is true to their hero…Readers who just enjoy a good mystery thriller will appreciate the terse narrative and fast moving action." —Lawrence J. Goodrich, Christian Science MonitorLocated by a computer in...
