Der Brite Anthony Horowitz und viele andere Autoren setzen den englischen Meisterdetektiv neu in Szene.

Der Brite Anthony Horowitz und viele andere Autoren setzen den englischen Meisterdetektiv neu in Szene.
Die letzte Ausgabe dieses Jahres beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Politik und Kriminalliteratur. Zudem Rezensionen zu Romanen von Rita Falk, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Denise Mina, Horst Seidenfaden, Anthony Horowitz und weiteren.
Ein verfolgter Kunsthändler, ein erdolchter Verfolger und ein zu Tode gefolterter Straßenjunge: Ganz schön viel Action für einen Sherlock-Holmes-Roman. Trotzdem hat die Arthur-Doyle-Gesellschat die neue Folge als 61. Fall des Meisterdetektivs offiziell anerkannt.
Dem britischen Autor Anthony Horowitz gelingt eine literarische Fortsetzung von Sherlock Holmes. Darin schickt er den Detektiv in eine unheimliche Welt: Nebel. Gaslaternen. Kopfsteinpflaster.
Ian Rankin kommt in »Die Sünden der Gerechten« ohne Inspector Rebus aus. Sherlock Holmes kommt in »Das Geheimnis des weißen Bandes« ohne Arthur Conan Doyle aus. Und Olga Tokarczuk? Kommt in »Der Gesang der Fledermäuse« sogar ohne Spannung aus.
Does Moriarty exist, or not? Well no, not really, and not just in the literal sense of being a fictional character. He’s hardly even that. We have no evidence beyond Holmes’s word, and if you look at Holmes’s behaviour you can see an almost classic case of paranoia.
Is the world in need of a yet another Sherlock Holmes story? Well, with the successful publication of Anthony Horowitz’s »The House of Silk« it seems it is. Horowitz’s novel attempts to give us an authentic Sherlockian adventure.
Developing a list of the top thriller novels for any particular year is necessarily limited by the scope of the author’s reading, as well as by his or her tastes. While most of the books in my stack were commonplace, a number stood out for their quality.
»I’m not an arrogant person by nature, but in this case I just knew I could do it,« says Anthony Horowitz. Horowitz explains why he was so keen to resurrect Sherlock Holmes – 81 years after the death of his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The mystery is vile enough to support a novel and Holmes has some clever moments. If you’re a fan, this is comfort food. It feeds your desire to see Holmes in a new tale but does not provide any insight or astonish you with its cleverness.
When, in 1886, Scottish physician Arthur Conan Doyle created his fictional »consulting detective« in the novel »A Study in Scarlet«, he didn’t expect the man to outlive him. Now Sherlock Holmes is livelier then ever.
The book is in a class of its own: Horowitz’s novel is the first Sherlock Holmes addition to have been written with the endorsement of the Conan Doyle estate. It is not a pastiche. It is not an update. It is, as its cover proudly declares, »the new Sherlock Holmes novel«.