“Where,” Sherlock Holmes is fond of asking Dr Watson, when inviting him along on a case, “would I be without my Boswell?” It’s a question Anthony Horowitz doesn’t answer, or even ask, in his new Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk. (Illustration by Sidney Paget from The Blue Carbuncle.)
Lance Mannion's review of the Anthony Horowitz version of Sherlock Holmes is first rate. Even if you're not a Baker Street urchin it's worth a read…