A review by vsbedford
Baker Street Irregulars: The Game Is Afoot by Narrelle M Harris

4.0

Lively collection of Holmes stories, reimagined and remixed through time, gender, and degree of difficulty. Like a strong 80% of these were zippy and original (or as original as they could be) and, to be honest, the nonstarters for me probably struck me the wrong way because of personal peeves. Sidebar - what is going on with the over reliance on italics? The last two or three years has been rotten with them. It's like nails on a GD chalkboard. Also for Holmes-fans, there's a nice mix of retellings of original stories (like Six Red Dragons) and new mysteries entirely (Sin Eater and the Adventure of Ginger Mary). The far-future stories didn't resonate with me; sci-fi genre jargon is hard enough to assimilate in novel-length books and in short stories it is nearly impossible and super distracting. Definitely one of the more engaging Holmesian books I've read in the last few years!

I received an ecopy from the publishers and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.