A Deep Game: The Travelers’ Companion to the London of Sherlock Holmes

Review: As always, Mr Hammer is an amiably opinionated guide, but his new book is not, alas, wholly reliable. It wasn’t University College Hospital that was known as ‘Godless Gower Street’ but University College itself - the original ‘University of London’; the Clermont Club is not at Lansdowne House, which was partly demolished in 1934, the residue now housing the Lansdowne Club; the steeple of St George’s Hanover Square does indeed support a weathervane rather than a cross, but this is usual in older English churches ... and do any British people really pronounce ‘Thames’ as ‘Tims’? A Deep Game is a jolly read, but the Sherlockian who wants an accurate guide may prefer Arthur M Alexander’s Hot on the Scent: A Visitor’s Guide to the London of Sherlock Holmes (reviewed in DM 196)."

Reviewed by: Roger Johnson, [District Messenger 218, 2002]