"The Final Solution" by Michael Chabon (Harper Perennial, 2006)

I didn't realise it involved Sherlock Holmes until I read other reviews. The plot's ok, the first scene's intriguing, and it's fun when the parrot's the PoV, but I doubt whether it's worth 120 pages. A "grab" is a bag?

Other reviews

• Deborah Friedel (New York Times)
• John Freeman (Independent)
• David Abrams(January Magazine)