The New York Times Book Review
- Susann Cokal
[Simmons] delivers a buddy comedy that stands with the best of them, full of arch conversations and delightfully silly supporting characters.
Publishers Weekly? 01/19/2015
In Paris in 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James join forces in this outstanding novel from Simmons, who has concocted something far from the usual pastiche, with a historical figure standing in for Dr. Watson. James, the distinguished American author, is about to kill himself by plunging into the Seine, overcome by crippling depression. Just before stepping off le pont Neuf, he notices a man with an aquiline profile standing nearby; he quickly ascertains that the man is actually Holmes, believed to have perished with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls two years earlier.
