Monday, March 15, 2010

Book Review Haikus, Vol. 1: January

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Watson, vet adrift,
takes roommate; murder most foul
long adventure told well.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poor Jim: sailing on
to Skull Island, John Silver
and danger abound.

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (audiobook)

Amelia P.,
Spinster with strong mind and will,
to Egypt and love.

I will add that I loved all three of these. The third is the first in what is now a series of 19 novels that I think will be considered classics of historical mystery-adventure fiction. I've read more than half of these, and probably all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, though am going back over them again.


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