An English Professor's Views on "The Final Page of Baker Street"

[Daniel Victor has] succeeded wonderfully on all counts: premise, plot, theme, tone, etc. The greatest achievement, I think, is in his command of voice: he's done both Watson and Chandler to a T, finding a voice for the younger Chandler which nicely foreshadows his later writing, slightly-over-the-top similes and all. So cool! As is the over-arching premise, with Chandler as page in Baker Street--just marvelous. As you've no reason to recall, I taught a course (some time in the Lower Pleistocene) on Detective Fiction Between the Wars, cheating a little and starting with Doyle, as one must , and cheating a bit at the other end, as I recall, with Chandler. In any case, I know and have taught those voices, and think Danny has done a bang-up job.
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