Review: The Real Sherlock

The Real Sherlock by Lucinda Hawksley
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Another disappointment! Doyle is such a fascinating figure with connections to other famous figures of his time, but this book was like the Cliff Notes of his life. It was a very sparse "this happened then that happened and then the other happened" type of book. Thank goodness it was free. 

Besides the lack of depth of information, the background music must have been composed by the same composer of the Great British Baking Show. That interfered with my listening because once I actually thought the narrator was going to bust out with recipes (OK, it was early in the morning so I was a bit slow). 

There were several segments where the narrator visited the keepsakes of Doyle's life, such as his pen, the nightshirt in which he died, and other things. Museum curators describe the articles but an audiobook is not where you have segments like this. They belong in a video. 

Finally, the author continued to ask actors who had played Holmes or Watson their ideas of Doyle. They mostly talked of themselves. Give me some facts and new information; some new insights!

There was one new piece of information: Doyle had all of his teeth pulled at an early age to avoid toothache and lived with dentures the rest of his life. That was it for me for the entire two plus hours of this Audible Original.

Move on and read Arthur & George by Julian Barnes, a brilliant book and wonderful series that I saw on PBS.

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