A review by lucyb
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Classic Crime) by W.R. Duncan Macmillan, Stuart Palmer, F.P. Cillié, Richard Lancelyn Green, Vincent Starrett, Julian Symons, Adrian Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox, S.C. Roberts, D.O. Smith, Arthur Whitaker

4.0

This is a really solid collection, put out by Penguin in the mid-1980s, containing pastiches from Ronald Knox onwards. In addition to Knox's contribution, there's also a delightfully rococo contribution from Vincent Starrett. A 1945 story by S.C. Roberts cleverly alludes to the Megatherium Trust invented by notable Sherlockian Dorothy L. Sayers; "The Adventure of the Purple Hand" neatly combines the canon's elements of the grotesque with its fundamental faith in the potential of human compassion. And the concluding story in the book, a charming contribution from Julian Symons, shows a Sherlock Holmes no less incisive and compassionate for having retired to the Sussex downs... and a young client who is impressive in her own right.