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Odié este libro hasta donde llegué. Es como una enfermedad que te carcome y te chupa la vida sin que te des cuenta. Mientras lo estás leyendo, sientes como el aburrimiento te invade y disminuyen tus ganas de vivir. Sigues leyendo porque supones que no hay nada mejor que leer, que sólo tienes que terminarlo y acabará el tormento. Pero entonces logras abrir otro libro, ¡y te das cuenta de que este engendro parásito te tenía convencido de que ya no hay libros buenos o divertidos en el mundo, de que te había quitado la alegría de descubrir nuevas historias y estaba robándote el alma y la vida! ¡No se acerquen a este libro! ¡Es peligroso!

Who am I kidding? I'm not finishing this! Period.

What can I say? Mr. Booth is a favourite of mine since [b:The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth|219813|The Bone Key The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth|Sarah Monette|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389938448l/219813.SX50.jpg|212828] got into my hands several years ago. I have a soft spot for academic main characters. And for once, the "why the house is haunted?" is properly and satisfactorily explained.
I loved this book!
Thank you for writing another Kyle Murchison Booth story!

A very uneven collection of tales where Holmes and Watson are taken by the authors and put in different countries, different ages and different sexes. Some of the stories are quite good, and some simply aren't. These are the 14 stories:

1. A scandal in Hobohemia by Jamie Wyman. A carny not-Holmes in a travelling carnival.
2. Black Alice by Kelly Hale. A 17th century Holmes and Watson in England. Quite good.
3. The Adventure of the Speckled Bandana by J. E. Cohen Holmes and Watson's case in modern Las Vegas.
4. The Rich Man’s Hand by Joan De La Haye. South African Holmes and Watson found themselves in need of money and take a case from Lestrade. Its weird, really weird, but it's a good one. I love the sarcastic personality of Watson.
5. The Lantern Men by Kaaron Warren. A slow ghost story located in modern Australia, with a Holmes that is not a consultant detective and a Watson that is not a doctor.
6. A Woman’s Place by Emma Newman. A very good answer to the question "but why does Mrs Hudson puts up with the detective pair?".
7. A Study in Scarborough by Guy Adams. A very interesting take on the "Holmes-Watson" pair as a famous but faded comedic duo in modern England. Quite good.
8. The Small World of 221B by Ian Edginton. Dr. Watson has to be the best man of Mr. Michael Stamford, and things start to go really weird. Very good story.
9. The Final Conjuration by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What happens if you can't take the impossible from the equation? This is fantasy and mystery at its best. I love this story.
10. The Innocent Icarus by James Lovegrove. A victorian London where everyone is born with strange superpowers. Except for Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
11. Half There/All There by Glen Mehn. Sherlock Holmes in Andy Warhol’s ‘Factory,’. I hated this one. Didn't finished it.
12. All the Single Ladies by Gini Koch. Contemporary California: a series of murders in all-female universities, a Dr. Watson with a sarcastic personality, a British Sherlock Holmes helping the local police and a reality show. Very good story.
13. The Patchwork Killer by Kasey Lansdale. A modern Watson, one not-so-modern Holmes and a weird series of killings. I didn't liked this one.
14. Parallels by Jenni Hill. Meta-stories in a story. If you like fanfics, this is your story. I hate fanfics.

The first time I read this book I must have been 12 or 13 years old. It was the Spanish translation, and I loved it.

Yesterday I finished my second reading, 40 years later, and it is still a good book, but all the "marital advise" is just too misogynistic for my taste. I know, I know... What did I expected from a book first published in 1934? Still, it should come with am introductory note about it

I wasn't expecting that! And I'm not saying anything else.