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Holmes Meets Phantom of the Opera

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930912
Author:Edward S. Gilbreth

Nicholas Meyer's first mystery, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud), established itself in 1974 as the high standard against which Holmes pastiches should be measured.

Meyer rivaled that standard a few years later, pitting the Baker Street sleuth against Jack the Ripper in The West End Horror.

Now, a generation later, Meyer comes up with The Canary Trainer (Norton, $21), a homage to both Arthur Conan Doyle and French author Gaston Leroux.

The Great Detective meets the Phantom of the Opera, that figure of infamy whose hold on the public imagination has ...

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