California Literary Review  Book Review: The Sherlockian by
Graham Moore   January 6th, 2011 at 8:00 am    • Print Print The
Sherlockian by Graham Moore The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Twelve, 368 pp. CLR Rating: ★★★★☆  Final Problems  Every actor
wants to play Hamlet and every writer wishes to write a great
novel or nonfiction work that will command the respect and
attention of the ages. Arthur Conan Doyle certainly achieved
that with his Sherlock Holmes stories. Yet, the four novels and
56 short stories that Conan Doyle wrote about his famous
consulting detective were not what he wanted to be remembered
for.  And there, dear reader, hangs a tale.  Indeed, in a very
impressive debut novel, Graham Moore spins two interconnected
tales of detection from Conan Doyle’s decision in 1893 to send
Holmes plunging to his death from a cliff overhanging the
Reichenbach Falls in the Swiss Alps. The intertwined stories are
based on real life events, the contemporary mystery recalling
the 2004 death of a notable Sherlock H