Summer of Stephen
Title: “The Doctor’s Case”
Publishing Date: 1985 Length: 36 pages Start Date: February 3, 2019 End Date: February 3, 2019 I love Sherlock Holmes, but Stephen King’s version of a Holmes story just didn’t really do anything for me. “The Doctor’s Case” is a pretty standard “locked-room” mystery of the variety Sherlock Holmes loves to solve. But in this story, it’s Watson who solves the case, behaving in a very Holmes-like fashion to do so. It also ends with Holmes, Watson, and Inspector Lestrade deciding that the victim deserved to be murdered and destroying evidence to ensure the case can’t be solved by anyone else. Maybe it’s because I’m in the middle of reading the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, but I just wasn’t a fan of this deviation from the usual behaviors of these well-known characters. I get that King wanted to make the story his own, but he probably would have been better off just writing a completely original story with his own detective instead of trying to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery.
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