Sherlock Holmes and the Round Table Adventure

by Joseph W. Svec III

"Merlin predicted you would say that."
When a knight from the Round Table of Camelot bursts into 221-B Baker Street demanding the help of Sherlock Holmes, there begins the oddest, most mystical adventure Holmes and Watson have ever experienced. Merlin himself, has called the great detective and his scribe back through time, to solve a vexing problem. England's greatest Poet Laureate is missing!
A Unicorn leads the way through the portal in the standing stones, and waiting for them are a series of challenges unlike anything they have ever encountered before, as well as Pixies, Gnomes, Hobgoblins, a dragon, an enchanted mirror, a very odd chess match, an underground labyrinth, King Arthur, and his Round Table, and the most infamous sorceress of history and myth, Morgan le Fey!
Plot twists abound, as logic and rational thinking collide head on with myth and magic, resulting in Sherlock crafting a masterful scheme that echoes all the way down through history. Brace your selves for a most fascinating and enjoyable tale.

Genres: Mystery

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 27, 2016

Reviews

[Dale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sherlock Holmes at Camelot!

My thanks to Steve and Timi at MX Books for my review copy of this book!

There could be spoilers, but I have been careful not to give too much away!

In Joseph Svec III’s first two Holmes novels, he has had Holmes travel to Wonderland seeking Alice and Lewis Carroll and under the sea on the Nautilus searching for Jules Verne. Now Holmes is traveling backwards in time to the days of King Arthur seeking for Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Tennyson has been living in Camelot since he has supposedly died, having visited the land many times in writing his “The Idylls of the King.” Now Tennyson has vanished, perhaps kidnapped by Morgan Le Fey…

As usual, Svec’s prose flows freely and there are laughs a plenty as Holmes seems to have a monograph on any small point of deduction he might need.

• Determining a Person’s Occupation Through Observations of Obvious but Typically Overlooked Characteristics
• A Study of Phase Transitional, Chronological Temporal Transportation and its Practical Applications
• Seeing the Unseen by Looking for the Obviously Invisible, with a Focus on the Hidden Trifles

And so on…

There are meetings with Sir Percival and Sir Lancelot, an encounter with a musical dragon, an underground labyrinth dug by a living lawn gnome, and more. Merlin can only speak in rhyme due to a spell cast upon him. They travel by speeding Unicorn. And Holmes hears his Pixie Music clearer than ever!

The mystery can be summed up in one sentence, a remark by Dr. Watson on page 71: “…here we are wandering around ‘Faerie Land’ with a fictional wizard and a talking Unicorn on a mission for King Arthur to locate a poet who actually died six years ago.” This is a perfect summary!

I give the book five stars…

Quoth the Raven…

[Ayacchi · Rating 2 out of 5]

For someone who hasn't read anything about King Arthur and the works of Alfred Tennyson, this isn't an enjoyable read. Never have I thought that Sherlock would encounter something magical. So, I needed time to finish this short book.

While the case isn't as complicated as I thought it would be, and how fantasy realm isn't my cup of tea, I like Merlin's rhymes here. Though there are too many monographs written by Sherlock were mentioned here.

[Carlo Arrighi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book Is amusing and humorous. Too much sugar perhaps and some mistakes. In 1898 Moriarty and Irene Adler are in the past not in the future and the choice of Tennyson it's not good "O fool, the harlot said" - if I remember well. Malory should have been better.
However uniting the "Matter of Britain" with Holmes and showing Merlin and Nimue in love was for me a gift from heaven...

[Araminta · Rating 4 out of 5]

if you like sherlock holmes then this is the one for you. I usually don't read sherlock books but on this occasion i tried it, i was pleasantly surprised and might read another. That says a lot believe me. Good book.