The Unrelated Adventures of Clewlow Holmes

Review: The contents are described as ten pastiches and one parody, but I’d call them all parodies, and clever ones.

Clewlow doesn’t have all the intellectual equipment of his elder brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, but he gets results - of a sort. Mr Moreton’s sense of humour was apparent in his earlier books; it runs wild here, and the result is pretty funny:

‘I suppose you mean the killing of Mr Bodily Trussed, a ruptured escapologist?’
‘Whose name appears in the stop-press as Mr Badily Trussed.’
‘I do not see that it matters.’
‘That is because you are not a ruptured escapologist. Clearly the poor fellow has met with vowel play.’

This profusely illustrated 160-page paperback is available from various crime fiction dealers at £12.00, or direct from the publisher. Sterling cheques payable to Cadds Printing Ltd; US dollar checks to Hugh Scullion.

Reviewed by: Roger Johnson, [District Messenger, 181, 1998]