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priorglass's review against another edition
4.0
this book made me love the baker street irregulars even more
elinacre's review against another edition
3.0
a good story with a couple of my favorite things to read about - circuses and sherlock holmes! the illustrations were really well done, too.
gayscenographer's review against another edition
3.0
This book was good for what it is! It’s a middle grade book and that is how it’s written, but I enjoyed it a lot still!! I always forget how brutal children’s books can get omg
enreina's review against another edition
3.0
Siapa yang tidak kenal dengan Sherlock Holmes? Tokoh detektif yang diciptakan oleh Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) telah menjadi figur yang tidak terlepaskan dengan cerita-cerita beraliran misteri.
Penerbit Qanita menerbitkan Sherlock Holmes dan Laskar Jalanan Baker Street: Misteri Kematian Bintang Sirkus yang diterjemahkan oleh Maria Lubis dari Sherlock Holmes and The Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas karya Tracy Mack dan Michael Citrin, sepasang suami istri editor dan asisten pengacara yang sama-sama menggemari cerita misteri.
Buku ini mengangkat kembali cerita Sherlock Holmes dengan kacamata yang berbeda. Jika pada novel-novel orisinilnya cerita Sherlock Holmes diceritakan oleh Dr. Watson yang membantu sang detektif dalam memecahkan kasus, pada novel ini ceritanya lebih memfokuskan kepada Laskar Jalanan Baker Street (Baker Street Irregulars), yaitu anak-anak jalanan yang membantu Sherlock Holmes mendapatkan informasi-informasi untuk memecahkan kasus.
Misteri Kematian Bintang Sirkus menceritakan tentang kematian dua akrobatik tali yang terjatuh karena tali akrobat yang mereka gunakan putus secara misterius. Dari kasus ini, diperkenalkanlah anak-anak jalanan, yang disebut Laskar Jalanan Baker Street oleh Sherlock Holmes, di antaranya adalah Ozzie, tokoh utama dalam buku ini, dan Wiggins, pemimpin laskar, serta tokoh Pilar, seorang putri peramal yang mereka temui di sirkus tempat kecelakaan terjadi.
Kasus ini ternyata terkait dengan kasus di Istana Buckingham Inggris, sebuah pencurian buku berumur dua ratus tahun, The Stuart Chronicle. Dari 2 kasus ini, Ozzie, Wiggins, dan teman-temannya membantu sang detektif untuk mencari kenyataan dibalik kasus ini.
Cerita yang dibawa buku ini sangat menyenangkan untuk dibaca karena kita disodorkan bagaimana anak-anak jalanan ini berjuang untuk mencari kebenaran kasus untuk membantu Holmes. Selain itu, penerjemah bahasa, Maria M. Lubis, berhasil menerjemahkan novel misteri ini tanpa merusak esensi 'bahasa yang mudah dipahami' seperti halnya buku aslinya dalam bahasa Inggris.
Sayangnya, mungkin karena lebih ditujukan untuk anak-anak, Tracy dan Michael masih kurang membuat dan memperwajar koneksi antara satu petunjuk dan petunjuk lainnya yang merupakan 'bumbu' utama pada Sherlock Holmes asli yang akan membuat pembaca berdecak kagum. Dalam buku ini, petunjuk-petunjuk yang mengarah ke kesimpulan kasus masih terlihat disengaja dan tidak wajar. Kurangnya 'aksi-aksi' Holmes yang nyata menjadikan buku ini kekurangan akan kekhasan dari cerita Sherlock Holmes sendiri, tetapi mungkin ini disebabkan oleh niat penulis yang ingin lebih membuka cerita mengenai laskar jalanan itu sendiri.
Alur cerita dalam buku ini lebih ringan dibandingkan cerita Sherlock Holmes yang asli karya Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sehingga buku ini lebih ditujukan untuk anak-anak yang menyukai cerita misteri, tetapi tidak ada salahnya para penggemar Sherlock Holmes membaca buku ini untuk melepas rindu kepada tokoh fiksi legendaris ini.
Penerbit Qanita menerbitkan Sherlock Holmes dan Laskar Jalanan Baker Street: Misteri Kematian Bintang Sirkus yang diterjemahkan oleh Maria Lubis dari Sherlock Holmes and The Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas karya Tracy Mack dan Michael Citrin, sepasang suami istri editor dan asisten pengacara yang sama-sama menggemari cerita misteri.
Buku ini mengangkat kembali cerita Sherlock Holmes dengan kacamata yang berbeda. Jika pada novel-novel orisinilnya cerita Sherlock Holmes diceritakan oleh Dr. Watson yang membantu sang detektif dalam memecahkan kasus, pada novel ini ceritanya lebih memfokuskan kepada Laskar Jalanan Baker Street (Baker Street Irregulars), yaitu anak-anak jalanan yang membantu Sherlock Holmes mendapatkan informasi-informasi untuk memecahkan kasus.
Misteri Kematian Bintang Sirkus menceritakan tentang kematian dua akrobatik tali yang terjatuh karena tali akrobat yang mereka gunakan putus secara misterius. Dari kasus ini, diperkenalkanlah anak-anak jalanan, yang disebut Laskar Jalanan Baker Street oleh Sherlock Holmes, di antaranya adalah Ozzie, tokoh utama dalam buku ini, dan Wiggins, pemimpin laskar, serta tokoh Pilar, seorang putri peramal yang mereka temui di sirkus tempat kecelakaan terjadi.
Kasus ini ternyata terkait dengan kasus di Istana Buckingham Inggris, sebuah pencurian buku berumur dua ratus tahun, The Stuart Chronicle. Dari 2 kasus ini, Ozzie, Wiggins, dan teman-temannya membantu sang detektif untuk mencari kenyataan dibalik kasus ini.
Cerita yang dibawa buku ini sangat menyenangkan untuk dibaca karena kita disodorkan bagaimana anak-anak jalanan ini berjuang untuk mencari kebenaran kasus untuk membantu Holmes. Selain itu, penerjemah bahasa, Maria M. Lubis, berhasil menerjemahkan novel misteri ini tanpa merusak esensi 'bahasa yang mudah dipahami' seperti halnya buku aslinya dalam bahasa Inggris.
Sayangnya, mungkin karena lebih ditujukan untuk anak-anak, Tracy dan Michael masih kurang membuat dan memperwajar koneksi antara satu petunjuk dan petunjuk lainnya yang merupakan 'bumbu' utama pada Sherlock Holmes asli yang akan membuat pembaca berdecak kagum. Dalam buku ini, petunjuk-petunjuk yang mengarah ke kesimpulan kasus masih terlihat disengaja dan tidak wajar. Kurangnya 'aksi-aksi' Holmes yang nyata menjadikan buku ini kekurangan akan kekhasan dari cerita Sherlock Holmes sendiri, tetapi mungkin ini disebabkan oleh niat penulis yang ingin lebih membuka cerita mengenai laskar jalanan itu sendiri.
Alur cerita dalam buku ini lebih ringan dibandingkan cerita Sherlock Holmes yang asli karya Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sehingga buku ini lebih ditujukan untuk anak-anak yang menyukai cerita misteri, tetapi tidak ada salahnya para penggemar Sherlock Holmes membaca buku ini untuk melepas rindu kepada tokoh fiksi legendaris ini.
emmareese's review against another edition
5.0
You know that one mystery book that you think about weeks after reading it? This is that book. Have you ever read that one book with a secret message that has you on the edge of your seat waiting to find out what it is? This is that book. You know those awesome books with witty, adorable orphan boys in Victorian England? This is one of those books.
You wanna read it? Let me tell you about it. Book 1 is an amazing twist to Sherlock Holmes, putting the spotlight on the group of under appreciated boys who helped him on many cases. I read the 3rd book first, having picked it up in the library then read this one. It was amazing from the very start. They both were, though I have to say nothing will beat the first book.
Ozzie had just joined the Baker Street Irregulars roughly two months ago but has never met Master (Sherlock Holmes). He grows close with the group; the Leader, Wiggins; Rohan, the gentle giant; Alfie, the youngest one; Elliot, the tailor and many more.
As a case comes up, the boys are happy to be back in business. They are investigating the deaths of tightrope walkers, which Holmes says were murders. While investigating the circus they meet the fortune tellers daughter, Pilar and uncover startling truths: the 3 tightrope walkers, named the Zalindas, were indeed murdered and in a very clever, evil genius way; it’s the work of London's most dangerous man, Professor Moriarty.
As they go along the boys discover much more is involved. Penelope, one of Pilar's friends from the circus who ran off with the youngest and fourth Zalinda brother, emerald eggs, professors, forgers, royal books, conspiracies and theft. Will the boys and Holmes uncover this mystery and what's at stake? Or will it all go down the drain?
You wanna read it? Let me tell you about it. Book 1 is an amazing twist to Sherlock Holmes, putting the spotlight on the group of under appreciated boys who helped him on many cases. I read the 3rd book first, having picked it up in the library then read this one. It was amazing from the very start. They both were, though I have to say nothing will beat the first book.
Ozzie had just joined the Baker Street Irregulars roughly two months ago but has never met Master (Sherlock Holmes). He grows close with the group; the Leader, Wiggins; Rohan, the gentle giant; Alfie, the youngest one; Elliot, the tailor and many more.
As a case comes up, the boys are happy to be back in business. They are investigating the deaths of tightrope walkers, which Holmes says were murders. While investigating the circus they meet the fortune tellers daughter, Pilar and uncover startling truths: the 3 tightrope walkers, named the Zalindas, were indeed murdered and in a very clever, evil genius way; it’s the work of London's most dangerous man, Professor Moriarty.
As they go along the boys discover much more is involved. Penelope, one of Pilar's friends from the circus who ran off with the youngest and fourth Zalinda brother, emerald eggs, professors, forgers, royal books, conspiracies and theft. Will the boys and Holmes uncover this mystery and what's at stake? Or will it all go down the drain?
crowyhead's review against another edition
3.0
A rewarding, beautifully illustrated tale for the middle school set. The mystery itself is a bit clumsy and not all that mysterious, but the story is rollicking and the characters intriguing. Mack does a good job of evoking the feel of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, even if his mystery is not of the same quality.
mackle13's review against another edition
3.0
Those who have read the Holmes stories are, no doubt, familiar with the Baker Street Irregulars, the group of "Street Arabs", as they are called in the Doyle stories, who sometimes provide help to Holmes via spying. No one notices them, you see, so they're free to see and hear many things on the streets.
In the stories, though, they're often mentioned in passing, and never really dwelt on. Well, this book seeks to set that record straight but claiming that Watson was jealous of the kids, which is why he always gave them such short shrift. (Watson, in general, is portrayed in a very negative light in this book. Perhaps understandably so, considering the premise, but I always feel like Watson gets short shrift and don't really like to see another book doing so.)
That aside, the kids are a cool little group, lead by Wiggins and seconded by Osgood, who is, himself, no slacker and a great admirer of Holmes and his method, to the point of emulating it.
The book also does a good job of setting the scene, and discussing some of the more unsavory facets of Victorian life, such as the workhouses, which the boys feared above all.
As is necessary to the story, Holmes is more a background sort of character, while the story follows the kids to the circus as they investigate the deaths of a troupe of tightrope walkers. Instead of just looking and listening, though, they actively investigated, questioning the various members of the circus, and getting themselves into a bit of bother along the way.
At the circus they are joined by Pilar, a headstrong Gypsy girl and fortune-teller, who is bored of the circus and follows the boys back to Baker Street to join in the investigation - much to everyone's chagrin, but proving herself useful (if a bit conveniently so).
Overall, it was definitely an entertaining story, though missing a little something in the telling that could've pushed it to a higher rating. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but there's just something missing. I think it might've been one of those ever present telling vs showing things, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'll keep an eye out for the next in the series, though, the next time I'm idly browsing at the library.
***
Oh, also, the story is purported to be told by someone who was there, and we are given clues, in the form of overlarge letters every few pages, to his identity. I guess it pretty early on, but can't say the conceit entirely worked for me. I mean, it was an interesting idea and all, but there are too many logistic questions that would be open for such a thing to be true.
In the stories, though, they're often mentioned in passing, and never really dwelt on. Well, this book seeks to set that record straight but claiming that Watson was jealous of the kids, which is why he always gave them such short shrift. (Watson, in general, is portrayed in a very negative light in this book. Perhaps understandably so, considering the premise, but I always feel like Watson gets short shrift and don't really like to see another book doing so.)
That aside, the kids are a cool little group, lead by Wiggins and seconded by Osgood, who is, himself, no slacker and a great admirer of Holmes and his method, to the point of emulating it.
The book also does a good job of setting the scene, and discussing some of the more unsavory facets of Victorian life, such as the workhouses, which the boys feared above all.
As is necessary to the story, Holmes is more a background sort of character, while the story follows the kids to the circus as they investigate the deaths of a troupe of tightrope walkers. Instead of just looking and listening, though, they actively investigated, questioning the various members of the circus, and getting themselves into a bit of bother along the way.
At the circus they are joined by Pilar, a headstrong Gypsy girl and fortune-teller, who is bored of the circus and follows the boys back to Baker Street to join in the investigation - much to everyone's chagrin, but proving herself useful (if a bit conveniently so).
Overall, it was definitely an entertaining story, though missing a little something in the telling that could've pushed it to a higher rating. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but there's just something missing. I think it might've been one of those ever present telling vs showing things, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'll keep an eye out for the next in the series, though, the next time I'm idly browsing at the library.
***
Oh, also, the story is purported to be told by someone who was there, and we are given clues, in the form of overlarge letters every few pages, to his identity. I guess it pretty early on, but can't say the conceit entirely worked for me. I mean, it was an interesting idea and all, but there are too many logistic questions that would be open for such a thing to be true.
notenoughnewts's review against another edition
4.0
If you have a need for a Sherlock Holmes-Sandlot crossover story, this book will fill that void. It’s Sherlock mysteries from the perspective of his street urchin informants, so you get the brotherly comradery of the boys, their mild antagonism with Watson, and their respect and admiration for Holmes on top of the mystery itself. The narrative and characters also feel authentic to the world, as if they had been there all along, if largely unobserved—which is exactly what the intent was. If that sounds appealing to you, this book won’t disappoint.
claudiaswisher's review
4.0
Fun! Mack and Citrin take the few references to the urchins who occasionally help Holmes in his cases, and have created living, breathing boys with compelling back stories.
Ozzie's mother recently died and she secured an apprentice position for him that she hopes will be advantageous. Unfortunately, his master is a forger, and Ozzie's talents have made him invaluable. Wiggins, even tho he is the leader, is so lonely...he has memories only of the orphanage he escaped. His pet ferret, Shirley, helps some. Rohan, a recent immigrant, lost his father in a fishing accident, and he's just trying to survive. These are boys you care about...and want the best for.
Holmes has been brought in on two cases...something shadowy with the royal family, and the deaths of an entire circus tightrope-walking family. Of course they're related, and Holmes enlists the Irregulars as lookouts. These smart little men are too bright to stay in the background for long. At the circus, they meet Pilar, the daughter of the Fortune Teller, and she joins the group as well. In exasperation, Holmes pronounces her 'A little Irene Adler.'
There is a secret code within the printed words, one that leads to the next book.
A loving homage to the original, letting us truly know who these boys are.
Ozzie's mother recently died and she secured an apprentice position for him that she hopes will be advantageous. Unfortunately, his master is a forger, and Ozzie's talents have made him invaluable. Wiggins, even tho he is the leader, is so lonely...he has memories only of the orphanage he escaped. His pet ferret, Shirley, helps some. Rohan, a recent immigrant, lost his father in a fishing accident, and he's just trying to survive. These are boys you care about...and want the best for.
Holmes has been brought in on two cases...something shadowy with the royal family, and the deaths of an entire circus tightrope-walking family. Of course they're related, and Holmes enlists the Irregulars as lookouts. These smart little men are too bright to stay in the background for long. At the circus, they meet Pilar, the daughter of the Fortune Teller, and she joins the group as well. In exasperation, Holmes pronounces her 'A little Irene Adler.'
There is a secret code within the printed words, one that leads to the next book.
A loving homage to the original, letting us truly know who these boys are.