Chronicles of the Lost Years is a Sherlock Holmes story in the best tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Watson is, as in the original tales, the narrator, and the story features other well known Doyle characters such as Sherlock Holmes, his brother, Mycroft, the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes’s adversary Moriarity, and a couple of others.

While there is a little bit of overlap with one or two of Doyle’s tales, it is only in passing to provide continuity to this story. What Ms. Cooper-Posey does is take, for instance, the time-frame between Holmes’s final standoff with Moriarity and his reappearance in London and provide a wonderful telling of what could very well have happened to him in those years. That is the main focus of the Chronicles, though a couple of other “gaps” are filled in as well. A love interest is also introduced for Holmes in the guise of Elizabeth Sigerson, who starts out as a bit of a mystery for Holmes to solve, although she is first introduced as a patient for Dr. Watson.

Chronicles of the Lost Years is a wonderful read for all ages. This reviewer really enjoyed reading it not only due to a great like of mysteries every so often, but, in essence, cutting my teeth on Sherlock Holmes. I came into this book with an open mind as every author will have his or her own stamp when writing within a different author’s “world” and I was very pleasantly surprised. Ms. Cooper-Posey wrote Chronicles with the proper balance of staying true to Mr. Doyle’s creation while putting her own stamp on his works.

• Paperback: 209 pages
• Publisher: Ravenstone; 1 Ed edition (October 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0888012411
• ISBN-13: 978-0888012418

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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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