Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula

By Hermann Stahl

Book Overview

The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passenger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew has been murdered and dumped, but what can account for the captain's expression of imponderable terror and his acute loss of blood, or the ship's strange cargo: fifty boxes of earth? The game is afoot, and Holmes, aided as ever by the faithful Dr. Watson, finds himself on the trail of no mortal enemy, but the arch-vampire himself-Count Dracula!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385140517
• ISBN13: 9780385140515
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Amusing Diversion

There are now any number of pastiches of Sherlock Holmes. The author himself alludes to this at the beginning of this book, noting that Watson's "lost" manuscripts seem to crop up everywhere; he then ruminates on the possibility that some of them are fake. The current story interweaves Holmes with Count Dracula and his antagonists, Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and the rest. The author (Watson, of course) insists that Stoker's...

One of the best

First published in the late seventies, this is generally recognised as one of the all time classic Holmes pastiches. Yes you can quibble that Holmes was squarely a non-believer in the supernatural but it's hard to resist this pairing of the Great Detective and the Lord of the Undead. If you go with the notion and let the story transport you there is great fun to be had. I disagree with the opinion that Holmes has no point...

Great fun, clever and well written

If you can suspend your disbelief that Sherlock Holmes can be convinced that vampires exist, then you'll have great fun with this novel. Author Loren Estleman has done a good job in replicating the tone and style of the Conan Doyle stories, and the way that he uses Bram Stoker's novel as the background for this story is very clever indeed. As anyone who has read Dracula will know, Dracula is "off-screen" for most of the book...

Clever pastiche; more for Holmes fans than Dracula fans

A rather clever retelling of the Bram Stoker tale with Holmes as a character, narrated, of course, by Watson, and purporting to be a part of the main canon. Estleman is good at recreating the Holmesian aspect: the boughs howling in moonlit graveyards, the gas-lamps' blobby light in thick fog, etc. He's done his research as to the period and the writing style, and it does work. (Less present is the macabre horror of Stoker's...

When I noticed the title I was skeptical?.then I read the bo

I had gone to my local bookstore to see if the most recent Sherlock Holmes story by Larry Millet was in yet. I happened upon "Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula". As much as I enjoy books about the great detective I was skeptical when I noted the title. Still, I decided to take a chance and purchased the book. What a find! My money was well spent. Holmes and Watson are matched against a totally different for than ever before. The...