Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200368 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended
My wife kept me awake, laughing uproariously reading this book late into the night, so I read it myself. I saw what the fuss was about; hilarously phrased, madcap plots, Holmes and Watson lampooned mercilessly but lovingly.

It worked both for me (who loves the old classic novels) and my wife who thinks that Holmes really wore a deerstalker!

Perfect present for a literary pal or someone who you think would really benefit from a couple of hours of belly laughs.

Great fun, like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
If you like books that mix things that don't normally go together, then this is for you. Refined Victorian gentlemen detectives don't generally combine with sex, drugs and rock n roll, but that's what's on offer here.

It's a very entertaining book - full of great lines and Monty Python humour. The stories are a real mix, but each one is funny and it's an ideal read for a evening when you want to get away from it all. Truly funny stuff.

Sherlock Holmes and the Underpants of Death
To say I was disappointed in this work of lampoon/pastiche is to put it bluntly. It is a one joke book. The Doyle stories are lampooned as silly camp quasi-perverted (suggestions of coprophilia/necrophilia etc etc) are suggested as though to make fun of such things is the wittiest thing, without being able to actually think of a single good line or joke to support the premise

Sadly it becomes merely boring and throughout is labouredly unfunny.

However I have passed the book on to the local hospital as a gesture of genuine gallows humour.