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ISBN: 978-09709198-2-3
Weight: 13.6 ounces
Sherlock Holmes, in the absence of Dr. Watson presses Oscar Wilde into his service to help protect candidate Grover Cleveland from a sexual scandal in the 1884 U.S. presidential election, but everything goes wrong. Oscar Wilde proves to be Holmes intellectual equal; Professor Moriarty is the villain; and Lillie Langtry is the woman at the bottom of it all. Can Sherlock Holmes redeem himself and solve the story's mystery perhaps even the mystery of himself?
Review
In Wilde about Holmes, Yelesiyevich has managed to combine the archness of the aesthete with the sober ratiocination of the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a boisterous tale of murder, mystery, and mayhem in Old New York. Surrounded by the swirl of the Guilded Age, Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes join forces to defeat archnemesis Professor Moriarty in his attempt to derail Grover Cleveland's presidential campaign. As readers we must navigate the rocky shoals of blackmail, skullduggery, illicit love affairs, political corruption, bad disguises, overeating, and wayward thespians. Narrating alternately in the voices of Wilde and Holmes, Yelesiyevich seamlessly interweaves the attitudes and mannerisms of two of the nineteenth century's most characteristic and best-known authors. Utterly convincing and supremely ambitious, this sly, clever, witty novel manages to simultaneously delight and mystify readers. For all its surface sparkle and flair, this is a surprisingly cerebral novel that is also an homage to its characters and the world that brought them forth. It would be hard to overpraise a book that so richly brings together psychological acuity with the forward momentum of a crime novel.
Robert Bononno, Translator of The French New Wave, by Jean Douchet (1999)—Back Cover Blurb
ISBN: 978-09709198-2-3
Weight: 13.6 ounces
Sherlock Holmes, in the absence of Dr. Watson presses Oscar Wilde into his service to help protect candidate Grover Cleveland from a sexual scandal in the 1884 U.S. presidential election, but everything goes wrong. Oscar Wilde proves to be Holmes intellectual equal; Professor Moriarty is the villain; and Lillie Langtry is the woman at the bottom of it all. Can Sherlock Holmes redeem himself and solve the story's mystery perhaps even the mystery of himself?
Review
In Wilde about Holmes, Yelesiyevich has managed to combine the archness of the aesthete with the sober ratiocination of the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a boisterous tale of murder, mystery, and mayhem in Old New York. Surrounded by the swirl of the Guilded Age, Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes join forces to defeat archnemesis Professor Moriarty in his attempt to derail Grover Cleveland's presidential campaign. As readers we must navigate the rocky shoals of blackmail, skullduggery, illicit love affairs, political corruption, bad disguises, overeating, and wayward thespians. Narrating alternately in the voices of Wilde and Holmes, Yelesiyevich seamlessly interweaves the attitudes and mannerisms of two of the nineteenth century's most characteristic and best-known authors. Utterly convincing and supremely ambitious, this sly, clever, witty novel manages to simultaneously delight and mystify readers. For all its surface sparkle and flair, this is a surprisingly cerebral novel that is also an homage to its characters and the world that brought them forth. It would be hard to overpraise a book that so richly brings together psychological acuity with the forward momentum of a crime novel.
Robert Bononno, Translator of The French New Wave, by Jean Douchet (1999)—Back Cover Blurb