And the main villain certainly brings to mind a ruthless Moriarty. Doyle is a pretty good version of, well, himself. Man, don’t you hate it when that happens!ĭoyle’s rescuer, Jack Sparks, clearly has a lot of Sherlock Holmes in him, with some James Bond thrown in. And as you can guess by the name, it’s a really evil secret organization. Turns out that his completely fictional novel submission, The Dark Brotherhood, exactly mirrors a real group. Really creepy stuff happens, people die, a mysterious rescuer appears, and Doyle spends the rest of the book on the run from a dark conspiracy. Thus, this book is a type of pastiche, though darker than any straight Holmes tale I’ve read.Ī struggling young doctor who hasn’t yet created Holmes, Doyle receives a mysterious summons to what turns out to be a séance. Not only is the novel’s protagonist none other than Arthur Conan Doyle and bits of his life are scattered throughout, but there are Holmes-isms aplenty. John O’Neill wrote about (mostly the cover…) this book last year.įrost is absolutely a fan of Sherlock Holmes. Frost apparently wasn’t one to let grass grow under his feet, as only two years later, The List of 7 hit bookshelves. Yay! Twin Peaks came to an abrupt end in 1991: just after its second season. Mark Frost made the news not too long ago with the announcement that he and David Lynch will be making a new Twin Peaks series for Showtime.
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