My Dear Watson - Softcover

Bridges, Margaret Park

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780920768 ISBN 13: 9781780920764

Publisher: MX Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light--was he actually a woman? The master--or rather, mistress--of disguise finally puts pen to paper to reveal this decades-long deception and, in so doing, discovers another fact she kept secret even from herself. The complex mind of the brilliant consulting detective is finally opened to the public, in the chronicle of a new case never recorded by Dr. Watson and featuring Constance Moriarty, the beguiling daughter of Holmes infamous nemesis.

About this title

About the Author

MARGARET PARK BRIDGES was born in New York City and raised in Portland, Oregon. After moving to Massachusetts, she won the Special Award for Excellence in Japan's Suntory Mystery Fiction Competition for My Dear Watson -- written in Japanese. Since then, she has written and published several successful children's picture books in English. She has received awards for her poetry, and one short story she published was made into a film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She works in Boston and lives in Littleton, Massachusetts, with her haiku poet husband, her two talented daughters, and her adorable pug.

Review

''Margaret Park Bridges takes an even more revisionist approach in her novel My Dear Watson. The detective's secret is disclosed at the very start of the book, and it'll do no harm to reveal it here: Sherlock Holmes was a woman. It's not a new idea but it's handled here with great skill and confidence, and it has a purpose, to account for much of Holmes' personality as described by Dr Watson.'' --The Sherlock Holmes Society

''I started this book after an evening out, thinking I would just read a page or two to help me sleep . . . two hours later I'd read all of it. Margaret Park Bridges knows how to give a reader a good time. Each page beckons you hypnotically toward the next. It's suspense filled, interesting, fun and, indeed, funny to the point of farce on a couple of occasions.'' --Bookbag

''I started this book after an evening out, thinking I would just read a page or two to help me sleep . . . two hours later I'd read all of it. Margaret Park Bridges knows how to give a reader a good time. Each page beckons you hypnotically toward the next. It's suspense filled, interesting, fun and, indeed, funny to the point of farce on a couple of occasions.'' --Bookbag

About this edition

• Publisher: MX Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1780920768
• ISBN 13: 9781780920764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234