The Star of India: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes

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Summary: "The Star of India" is a great piece of Sherlockania!
Review: "The Star of India" is a great read, which I enjoyed especially because we got a great match of wits and intellects between Holmes and Moriarty. I have always felt that it was a shame that in the original stories by Doyle, we only have one short story that really features Moriarty. It's great to see a major confrontation between Holmes and the "Napoleon of Crime" and Bugge presents the whole story in the classic Homesian style. Please write us more great stories, Ms. Bugge!

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Summary: Fun and Insightful
Review: I own and have read many holmes pastiches. This is, by far, one of the best. Ms.Bugge weaves an exciting adventure and gives us rewarding psychological insight into the great detective. Holmes humanity and compassion shine as he and Doctor Watson come to the aid of a young street urchine who becomes mixed up in the main case under investigation. Ms. Bugge artfully reminds the reader of the great disparity in social classes of Victorian England and the plight of cast-off children in this time period. Our favorite Victorian knights ride high in this adventure. Ms. Bugge also provides the best interaction with the menacing Moriarty that I have yet to read short of that provided by Doyle himself. Moriarty's evil is palpable in one of his short exchanges with Dr. Watson in a latter chapter of this book. Bravo, Ms. Bugge!

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Summary: The best Holmes book since Ellery Queen's A Study in Terror
Review: My quote is on the jacket copy, but I want to add that I've been reading Holmes pastiches for a long time, have published and commissioned them, and in my opinion, Carole Bugge is one of the handful of authors who deserve to be bracketed with Watson himself. Pastiche is a curiously selfless art, however .. to appreciate Ms. Bugge's astonishing scope as a sensitive, highly poetic writer, one must also read her non-Holmes mystery novel, "Who Killed Blanche DuBois?" about to be published by Berkley Books.