A Holmes story by Michael Sims that takes a novel angle. So novel that the penny never dropped for me even with the title. Surely this was the story of the racehorse Silver Blaze, not strictly a memoir.
But no, it’s a memoir, or at least a part of one, relating the events of the story “Silver Blaze” as told by Silver Blaze himself.
Like I said, a novel angle.
I can’t say it adds much to the story, basically just reinforcing how noble a fellow Holmes is and how nasty Straker and Brown are, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. These kinds of stories are typical of children’s literature and I felt something like nostalgia reading it, taking me a back to a world where I imagined animals as basically having fully human personalities and intelligence but no ability to talk.
Alex Good 