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Arthur and the Great Detective
Puffin, Harmondsworth, 1981
dedication:
For Harriet and Ned
The blurb on the back:
Who has stolen a valuable manuscript from Gilbert and Sullivan aboard the SS Murgtroyd? Could it be the half-crazed Duchess of Cricklewood, Scarlet 'Orace, the Tattooed Steward or the Singing Lifeboat?
And it's good fun, both as children's fiction and as a piece of Holmesian marginalia. We've got Holmes and Watson and Lestrade, with Gilbert & Sullivan thrown in for good measure. No great surprises, but I like the depiction of Watson as being interested only in eating as much as possible. Lively, brief and literate. What more do you want?
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