- P5 WHAT WAS THE OTHER NOVEL SHERLOCK HOLMES APPEARED FULL
- P5 WHAT WAS THE OTHER NOVEL SHERLOCK HOLMES APPEARED FREE
“The game is set afoot when an anonymous note from a lady-in-distress sets Arthur Conan Doyle - rising young surgeon and part-time demystifier of the occult - on the trail of a dangerous group of elite Satanists known as the Dark Brotherhood. The blurb on the back of my audiobook version is a bit more informative: It also has a mystery plot, and an element of the supernatural – Doyle was a huge believer in spiritualism.” The book is written in that very dense Victorian style, and it’s a way of taking apart his characters and putting them back together in a more psychologically complex way. Conan Doyle told everybody that Holmes was based on one of the men who taught him medicine in Edinburgh, but I’m positing a more mysterious figure. “It’s set in Britain in 1888, and it’s the story of the young Arthur Conan Doyle and the man who will become his model for Sherlock Holmes. In an early interview before the novel was published, Mark gives this vague overview of the story: Unfortunately he doesn’t explain any further, nor does he say what the resolved anagram was. Plot Summary (Spoiler-Free)įrost has said the idea for the story came to him when he was playing Scrabble, as he was creating an anagram out of “Sherlock Holmes” with the tiles. On his own personal web site, Mark Frost refers to it as “The List of Seven”, so I’ve adopted that convention here for this article. Prior to publication, Frost had considered another variation with “The List of the Seven”, along with a completely different title, “The Left-Handed Path”. It’s given as “The List of 7” (the number) sometimes, “The List of Seven” (spelled out) other times, and even just “List of 7” (no leading “the”) on one of the US hardback editions. I think it’s interesting how the title shifts around in the various editions that have been produced over the years. It’s read by Rene Auberjonois, better known to Star Trek fans as the shape-shifting Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, so that made up for things a bit.
P5 WHAT WAS THE OTHER NOVEL SHERLOCK HOLMES APPEARED FULL
Not my favorite, but I’d read the full novel some time ago in the past and really just needed a refresher, so this would do (I’d later go on to buy the Kindle version). Then I heard that familiar cassette rattle (to those of us who grew up in the ‘80s) and realized, uh oh, this is my audiobook and it must be abridged. Some days later, having forgotten my order, I received a strange envelope, roughly the size of a large, thin paperback. It was only produced on cassette back in 1993, but I found a place where I could order it online, new, still “wrapped in plastic”. After a bit of digging, I did find the audio edition. Personally, I’m an audiobook guy and I thought I recalled listening to this on audiobook, even though Audible disagreed with me. You can find the book in hardback, paperback and Kindle versions from the usual sellers, including plenty of autographed copies floating around on EBay. It is currently ranked #9 (out of 164) on Goodread’s list of works of historical fiction that feature real-life authors. It was generally well received at the time and maintains good ratings today on GoodReads (3.93), Amazon (4.2) and Barnes & Noble (4.3). Also, Mark has stated in interviews that he started writing at age 11 and by age 15 had written three novels, but who knows whatever happened to those. Technically he is one of several authors listed for Welcome to Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town (published in 1991), but he apparently doesn’t count that (sigh – does anybody?). The List of Seven was released September 1, 1993, and it is Mark Frost’s first published novel.
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Midway through though, and I’ll warn you, we’re going to dig in and from there on everything will be fair game until the Conclusion, which will be spoiler free again.
So, with that in mind, the beginning of this article will be spoiler free, minus the kind of info you’d glean from the blurb on the back cover. However, I realize that there are still quite a few Twin Peaks fans who might only be now discovering that Frost wrote a few other books before the two that book-ended Season 3. Author’s note regarding spoilers: Granted, this book has been out for 25 years now, so the statute of limitations on spoilers expired, oh, about 24 years ago.
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