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 
I still think that! 😁
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I still like to think it. But I don’t believe it as intensely as I did when I was a boy.
Of course, I still carry on full conversations with dogs and cats. For what it means to them or me.
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Yep, me too 🙂
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So a HORSE tells a Holmes pastiche now? Goodness, what will they think of next?
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The next story in this collection is, believe it or not, just as strange.
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If it was anyone but you, I wouldn’t believe it. But you seem to have this affinity for digging out some really weird things…..
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I don’t come up with this stuff, just report on it!
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