Vaughn Entwistle
Auteur de The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A propos de l'auteur
Vaughn Entwistle grew up in northern England. In the
early nineties he moved to Seattle to work as a writer, and
in his spare time ran a successful gargoyle-sculpting
company for ten years. When not attempting to write with
one cat on his lap, a Brittany lying across his feet, and one
or more cats afficher plus sauntering across the keyboard, he likes to fly
a hang glider around Washington State. afficher moins
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The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014) 114 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Lieux de résidence
- Somerset, England
- Études
- Oakland University
- Agent
- Kimberley Cameron (Kimberly Cameron and Associates)
Membres
Critiques
The year is 1895 and Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to a horrendous crime scene where a senior member of Her Majesty's government has been murdered. The most baffling thing is that the killer seems to be one Charlie Higginbotham. But it's impossible for him to be the killer since he was hanged two weeks previously at Newgate Prison…
I wanted to like this book since I was quite happy when I was approved for this book a little while ago. But I just couldn't get into the story. It should be very interesting; I mean here we have Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde trying to find out the truth about a seemingly dead assassin while more people are getting killed. However, I found the story to be lacking something to make it special and not even towards the end when everything started to come together did I feel any excitement towards the story. I think the biggest problem was that it lacked surprises. There was no question about the identities of the suspects were for me and frankly, here we have Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and it feels like it takes him forever to puzzle things together. Another thing, it's true that he met his second wife while his first wife was still alive, but I had some real problem with Doyle courting Jean Leckie while Louisa is at home dying from tuberculosis. And, then when he believes that Leckie's life is in danger he invites her home. For yes, let's take home his new love to meet his dying wife. Asshole!
So, no, the book was not for me. Not even Oscar Wilde that I liked very much in the first book was up to my liking in this book. There is a scene in this book when they are undercover and Wilde just gives them away in such idiotic eye-rolling way that I wonder what the hell he is thinking!
I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review! Thank you!… (plus d'informations)
I wanted to like this book since I was quite happy when I was approved for this book a little while ago. But I just couldn't get into the story. It should be very interesting; I mean here we have Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde trying to find out the truth about a seemingly dead assassin while more people are getting killed. However, I found the story to be lacking something to make it special and not even towards the end when everything started to come together did I feel any excitement towards the story. I think the biggest problem was that it lacked surprises. There was no question about the identities of the suspects were for me and frankly, here we have Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and it feels like it takes him forever to puzzle things together. Another thing, it's true that he met his second wife while his first wife was still alive, but I had some real problem with Doyle courting Jean Leckie while Louisa is at home dying from tuberculosis. And, then when he believes that Leckie's life is in danger he invites her home. For yes, let's take home his new love to meet his dying wife. Asshole!
So, no, the book was not for me. Not even Oscar Wilde that I liked very much in the first book was up to my liking in this book. There is a scene in this book when they are undercover and Wilde just gives them away in such idiotic eye-rolling way that I wonder what the hell he is thinking!
I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review! Thank you!… (plus d'informations)
I'm going to use one of my dad's favourite sayings and call this one fair to middling.
On the surface it should have been a guaranteed-to-please-me read: I'm intrigued by Wilde, Conan Doyle is one of only a couple of people I'd go back in time to meet, and the it's a ghost story set on the moors. In spite of all of this, I remained nothing but an indifferent observer from start to finish; I failed to connect with Wilde or Doyle, and the ghosts failed to thrill. Additionally, the twisty part of the plot was something I saw coming from the start, although how Doyle got there at the end was so twisty and convoluted, I'm still not sure I get how he did it.
He did totally pull one over on me regarding the Count though; did not see that one coming.
This is the first of a series, but I doubt I'll be searching out the second one.… (plus d'informations)
On the surface it should have been a guaranteed-to-please-me read: I'm intrigued by Wilde, Conan Doyle is one of only a couple of people I'd go back in time to meet, and the it's a ghost story set on the moors. In spite of all of this, I remained nothing but an indifferent observer from start to finish; I failed to connect with Wilde or Doyle, and the ghosts failed to thrill. Additionally, the twisty part of the plot was something I saw coming from the start, although how Doyle got there at the end was so twisty and convoluted, I'm still not sure I get how he did it.
He did totally pull one over on me regarding the Count though; did not see that one coming.
This is the first of a series, but I doubt I'll be searching out the second one.… (plus d'informations)
I have read all the previous books in this series featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde so was excited to read this entry. I was not disappointed. This time instead of a novel we get short stories and I think the new format actually works better. I loved the interplay between Doyle and Wilde and the plots of the stories were varied nicely to give us a range of supernatural tales. I hope the author continues to give us more stories and in particular short stories!
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 187
- Popularité
- #116,277
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 18
I have a weakness for Sherlock Holmes and a book written about Doyle about the time after he had killed of Sherlock Holmes spiced with some paranormal activities sounded very intriguing. There are a lot of suspects at the Thraxton Hall, and it seems that not only Hope Thraxton is in danger so Doyle and Wilde have much to do, try to find a killer among the guests of the guests. The book was a mixed of crime, mystery, paranormal and also with a healthy dose of comedy since Wilde was in the story and he isn't the most serious person I have ever read about. I couldn't help of thinking about the movie clue when I read the book because of all the humor...
Anyway, the book was good. I liked Doyle and Wilde working together and the case wasn't too predictable with was nice. I recommend this book to anyone that likes historical mysteries with a bit of a paranormal twist to the story.
3.5 stars … (plus d'informations)